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Forbidden Orphanage Outside the Forbidden City
BECKY CERLING POWERS
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Summary
Laura 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 of nearly 200 destitute children. So why did she refuse the Chinese Communist Party’s offer to make her a national heroine? Laura Richards’ story was too dangerous to tell when she returned to the U.S. 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 relative’s amazing story. Eventually that quest led Becky to China and the orphans themselves. Today, over half a century after Laura left China, her story and her children’s story can finally be told.
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$33.95
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Category:
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Author:
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BECKY CERLING POWERS
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Title:
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Forbidden Orphanage Outside the Forbidden City
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Release date:
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24 October 2025
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CATALYST BOOK PRESS
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Subject:
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CHRISTIANISME
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ISBN:
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9781963511260 (1963511263)
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Renaud-Bray Reference:
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21453750
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Item nb:
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4433932
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Forbidden Orphanage Outside the Forbidden City
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POWERS, BECKY CERLING
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CATALYST BOOK PRESS
2025
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