Michael Farman is a retired Electronics Engineer who once studied Mandarin at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He has published his translations of ancient and classical Chinese poetry in numerous literary and translation magazines and a chapbook Clouds and Rain (Pipers' Ash, 2001). He has contributed to the anthologies A Silver Treasury of Chinese Poetry (Renditions 2003) and 300 Tang poems (White Pine Press 2011). A new anthology Jade Mirror: Women Poets of China, edited by Farman, has just been published by White Pine Press. As a member of ALTA, he has appeared on panels and contributed articles and reviews in the journal Translation Review. [Translation 1 | Translation 2]