- Occupation
- fruit merchant
- Alternative Names
- Lei Peng (pinyin)
- Louey Pang, Harry (also used)
- Pang, H. (also used)
- Pang, Harry Louey (also used)
- 雷鹏 (Chinese characters)
Details
Harry Louey Pang was a prosperous fruit merchant and prominent civic leader in Melbourne.
He was a leader in the Melbourne Chinese Empire Reform Association (1904 organisation) and believed that Australian prejudice would be weakened as the Chinese took up Western manners and customs. He was also a member of the Christian Chinese Union of Victoria c1903.
On 5 November 1918 he attended the Chinese interstate convention held in Melbourne. In April 1920, as a republican, he refused (with others) to be registered under the Beijing government which he considered to be illegitimate. In 1920 he was elected vice-president of the Victorian Chinese Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber became more nationalist in its policies during his office. He was later an office bearer in the Chinese Nationalist Party of Melbourne in 1923.
Sources used to compile this entry: 'Christian Chinese Union of Victoria [photograph caption]', Weekly Times, 25 April 1903, p. 12, 15; Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1920, Raphael Arts, South Australia, 1977.
Prepared by: Sophie Couchman, La Trobe University
Related Subjects
Published Resources
Books
- Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1920, Raphael Arts, South Australia, 1977. Details
Newspaper Articles
- 'Christian Chinese Union of Victoria [photograph caption]', Weekly Times, 25 April 1903, p. 12, 15. Details
Images
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- Title
- Christian Chinese Union of Victoria
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1903
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
- Details
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- Title
- Harry Louey Pang
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- - 1925
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
- Details
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- Title
- Members of the Adelaide branch of the KMT outside their building
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1921
- Details
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- Title
- Office bears of the Chinese Nationalist Party, Melbourne
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1923
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
- Details
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- Title
- Picnic of the Chinese Empire Reform Association at Oakleigh Park
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1906
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
- Details
Created: 19 May 2003, Last modified: 26 March 2011