Forbidden Orphanage Outside the Forbidden City by Becky Cerling Powers

Name: Forbidden Orphanage Outside the Forbidden City by Becky Cerling Powers
Brand: Catalyst Books

Catalyst Books

Forbidden Orphanage Outside the Forbidden CityAuthor(s): Becky Cerling Powers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Catalyst Books, United States\nImprint: Flare Books\nISBN-13: 9781963511260, 978-1963511260\nSynopsis\nLaura Richards was a shy American nurse who moved to a remote North China village in 1929 to take in castaway babies. Through 22 years of famines, bandit invasions and wars, she lived in the same poor conditions as the Chinese peasants, while managing to save the lives ofnearly 200 destitute children. So why did she refuse the Chinese Communist Partys offer to make her a national heroine? Laura Richards story was too dangerous to tell when she returned to the [url] in 1951. But when she died thirty years later, the old letters, photographs, and scattered bits of memoir that she left behind were so intriguing to her second cousin Becky Cerling Powers, that Becky began a 25-year quest to discover her quiet relatives amazing story. Eventually that quest led Becky to China and th.