Michael Rank (author)
{{Short description|British author}}
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Michael Rank (1950{{zh}} [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibisbill/12037202215/ Chinese press card, 1980] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031125634/https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibisbill/12037202215/ |date=2014-10-31 }} – 20 May 2017) was a British author. He was a journalist in China in the early 1980s, and visited Tibet in 1983.[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/22/michael-rank-obituary Michael Rank obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822180302/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/22/michael-rank-obituary |date=2017-08-22 }}
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).{{cite news |title=Theological, scientific, and geographical tripos results at Cambridge |work=The Times |date=22 June 1972 |page=21}} 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/26/north-korea-rason-beyond-capital |title=North Korea: Beyond the capital lies a different world |access-date=2016-12-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415201505/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/26/north-korea-rason-beyond-capital |archive-date=2016-04-15 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2010-09-26 |last1=Rank |first1=Michael }} 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'.
{{Cite web |last=Rank |first=Michael |date=2010-04-02 |title=Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/03/nothing-envy-korea-barbara-demick |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}
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[http://www.rsaa.org.uk/speakers/view/rank_michael Michael Rank] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202161407/http://www.rsaa.org.uk/speakers/view/rank_michael |date=2014-02-02 }}, site of the "Royal Society for Asian Affairs" and the history of English School of Gyantse.[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoShowDescs.asp?CollID=1390 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.[http://www.rsaa.org.uk/speakers/r Lecturers and Authors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406221726/http://www.rsaa.org.uk/speakers/r |date=2013-04-06 }}, site of the "Royal Society for Asian Affairs"
Articles
- 2014 "[http://apjjf.org/2014/11/23/Michael-Rank/4127/article.html Nineteen Eighty-four in China]", The Asia-Pacific Journal 9 June 2014.
- 2012 [https://archive.today/20120701135137/http://atimes.com/atimes/korea/na19dg01.html The Ponghwa behind Pyongyang's throne], "Asia Times Online", January 12, 2012.
- 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/96789 Ludlow, Frank (1885–1972)], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009
- 2004 [http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/pdf/bot_2004_02_full.pdf King Arthur comes to Tibet: Frank Ludlow and the English school in Gyantse, 1923-26], Namgyal Bulletin of Tibetology, 2004
- 2003 [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0306837032000068581 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) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120112205326/http://www.corncrake.net/Download/asia.pdf "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
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20181114115606/http://www.danwei.org/wildlife/wild_leopards_of_beijing_by_mi.php] "Wild leopards of Beijing" by Michael Rank. {{in lang|en}}
- [http://paper-republic.org/translators/michael-rank/] Notes on Michael Rank. {{in lang|en}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140202161407/http://www.rsaa.org.uk/speakers/view/rank_michael] more notes on Michael Rank. {{in lang|en}}
- [http://ibisbill.wordpress.com/ Blog of Michael Rank]
- [http://www.thebaron.info/news/article/2017/05/21/obituary-michael-rank Obituary in The Baron, 21 May 2017]
- [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/22/michael-rank-obituary Obituary in The Guardian, 22 Aug 2017]
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Category:English ornithologists
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Category:Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
Category:Peking University alumni