Michael Rank (author)
Michael Rank (1950[1] – 20 May 2017) was a British author. He was a journalist in China in the early 1980s, and visited Tibet in 1983.[2]
Education
[edit]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).[3] He also pursued studies at Peking University and Fudan University in Shanghai from 1974 to 1976.
Career
[edit]Based in London, Rank was Reuters correspondent in Beijing. He visited the city of Rason in North Korea in 2010.[4] He also published articles in The Guardian, "Asia Times Online", "BBC Wildlife",[5] and 'North Korea Economy Watch'.[6]
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 Ludlow[7] and the history of English School of Gyantse.[8] 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.[9]
Articles
[edit]- 2014 "Nineteen Eighty-four in China", The Asia-Pacific Journal 9 June 2014.
- 2012 The Ponghwa behind Pyongyang's throne, "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
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Chinese press card, 1980 Archived 2014-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Michael Rank obituary Archived 2017-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Theological, scientific, and geographical tripos results at Cambridge". The Times. 22 June 1972. p. 21.
- ^ Rank, Michael (26 September 2010). "North Korea: Beyond the capital lies a different world". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ BBC Wildlife: Volume 16, 1998. Michael Rank (China specialist) - "Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe"
- ^ Rank, Michael (2 April 2010). "Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick". the Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ Michael Rank Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, site of the "Royal Society for Asian Affairs"
- ^ Ludlow Collection: ' Tibet, 1923-26'., site of the 'British Library'
- ^ Lecturers and Authors Archived 2013-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, site of the "Royal Society for Asian Affairs"
External links
[edit]- [1] "Wild leopards of Beijing" by Michael Rank. (in English)
- [2] Notes on Michael Rank. (in English)
- [3] more notes on Michael Rank. (in English)
- Blog of Michael Rank
- Obituary in The Baron, 21 May 2017
- Obituary in The Guardian, 22 Aug 2017