About Duncan Leung
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
It’s sort of a strange combination of personal, and career updates – and perhaps some of you are cringing at this online profile faux pas that I’m committing of merging the two together; but I guess what better way of being transparent, than by doing so?
I originally had two separate blogs, one on Digital Media in Beijing, and another specifically for Photography, but due to a slight mishap, I lost my Digital Media blog.
Anyhow, I digress-
I arrived in Beijing in June 2009 – six months after a strange sovereign series of events following an OIL conference that I attended in January of the same year. During the conference I was led to seriously consider the possibility of leaving the US for China in the ‘near future’; “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask earnestly of the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest”, but many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
It so happened that on the first day that I returned back to work from the conference that I was laid-off (which was also the source of my US visa). However, doors began opening to go to Beijing, and six months later I found myself working and living in Beijing.
I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, though my college career was split into living a double-life as a student engineer, and a wedding and event photographer. During my five years in Illinois, I was able to work very closely with the photographers and brothers in the faith: Kenny Kim, Wayne Yuan, David Lai, Alex Roy, and Kenny Nakai, which was an immense pleasure and blessing in my development as a photographer.
I was introduced into the Online and Search Marketing industry during my internship as a Search Marketing Analyst with adSage, and gained experience in Social Media Marketing as the Social Media Marketing Advisor at the Beijing branch of MeshTop.
I’m not currently taking some time off work to study Chinese full-time.
Feel free to drop me a message if you’d like more information on photography, or digital media – or just life in general here in Beijing. =)
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