Michael Rank

Who is Michael Rank?

Michael Rank graduated in 1972 from Downing College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge in Chinese studies. He also pursued studies in Peking University and Fudan University in Shanghai from 1974 to 1976. He was a journalist in China in the early 1980s, and visited Tibet in 1983.

Based in London, he was Reuters correspondent of in Beijing. He visited the city of Rajin in North Korea in 2010. He has published articles in "The Guardian", "Asia Times Online", "BBC Wildlife", and 'North Korea Economy Watch'.

He is now a translator from Chinese to English, and a freelance journalist. His interest in the birds led him to study biography on Frank Ludlow and on the history of English School of Gyantse. One of his articles on this subject was published by the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology.

He has published three articles in the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.