EXHIBIT 21

                             PARLEX CORPORATION 
 
 
                           Listing of Subsidiaries
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Parlex International Corporation
      Incorporated - Commonwealth of Massachusetts
      Organized as a Foreign Sales Corporation
      January 8, 1985 

Parlex (Shanghai) Circuit Co., Ltd.
      Incorporated in Shanghai, China
      Date of Incorporation - May 29, 1995