Michael Rank (1950 Chinese press card, 1980 – 20 May 2017) was a British author. He was a journalist in China in the early 1980s, and visited Tibet in 1983.Michael Rank obituary
Education Rank was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and graduated from Downing College, Cambridge, in 1972 with a degree in Oriental Studies (specifically Chinese). He also pursued studies at Peking University and Fudan University in Shanghai from 1974 to 1976.
Career Based in London, Rank was Reuters correspondent in Beijing. He visited the city of Rason in North Korea in 2010. He also published articles in The Guardian, "Asia Times Online", "BBC Wildlife",BBC Wildlife: Volume 16, 1998. Michael Rank (China specialist) - "Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe" and 'North Korea Economy Watch'.
He later became a translator from Chinese to English and a freelance journalist. His interest in birds led him to study the life of Frank LudlowMichael Rank , site of the "Royal Society for Asian Affairs" and the history of English School of Gyantse.Ludlow Collection: ' Tibet, 1923-26'., site of the 'British Library' One of his articles on this subject was published by the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology.
He published three articles in the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.Lecturers and Authors , site of the "Royal Society for Asian Affairs"
Articles 2014 "Nineteen Eighty-four in China", The Asia-Pacific Journal 9 June 2014. 2012 , "Asia Times Online", January 12, 2012. 2009 Ludlow, Frank (1885–1972), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 2004 King Arthur comes to Tibet: Frank Ludlow and the English school in Gyantse, 1923-26, Namgyal Bulletin of Tibetology, 2004 2003 Frank Ludlow and the English School in Tibet 1923-1926, Volume 34, number 1 Asian Affairs, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, 2003 2001 (with Axel Bräunlich) "Notes on the occurrence of the Corncrake (Crex crex) in Asia and in the Pacific region", In Schäffer, n.; Mammen, U (PDF). Proceedings International Workshop 1998 Corncrake. Hilpoltstein, Germany. 2001
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External links "Wild leopards of Beijing" by Michael Rank. Notes on Michael Rank. more notes on Michael Rank. Blog of Michael Rank Obituary in The Baron, 21 May 2017 Obituary in The Guardian, 22 Aug 2017