Launch of the centenary history of the society: 13 November 2002

Abstract

Michael Rank is a graduate in Chinese from Downing College, Cambridge University. He also studied at Beijing University and Fudan University, Shanghai in the mid-1970s. He was a journalist in China in the early 1980s and visited Tibet in 1983. He is now a Chinese–English translator and freelance journalist. His interest in ornithology also drew him to Ludlow and to do research on his life.