3 New China Books in the Public Domain 2022 – #2 – Elizabeth Crump Enders – Temple Bells and Silver Sails, 1925

Posted: March 15th, 2022 | No Comments »

Yesterday i noted that Gowen & Hall’s Outline of the History of China was now in the public domain. Today a more evocative piece of writing. Elizabeth Crump Enders’s Temple Bells and Silver Sails, first published in the USA by White Lotus in 1925 and then another edition from D. Appleton in spring 1926.

Crump Enders had published before, a book called Swinging Lanterns. Both are travel memoirs and Crump Enders lived in Shanghai and Peking for a time and travelled extensively throughout Tibet in the 1930s.

Crump Enders, from West Lafayette, had been a volunteer nurse in France during WW1 where she met her husband, Iowan, Gordon Enders, a pilot. After the war they travelled pretty much constantly, in China, Latin America, India and Afghanistan, until her death in 1961. Gordon at one point became an adviser to the Panchen Lama, served in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps and represented various American and European businesses in China. Gordon wrote his own book, Foreign Devil, in the 1940s.

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