About
Hi, I’m Mengqing.
Born in ’97 in a small town in Sichuan; these days I write software in Shanghai. The lit points are places I’ve carried a camera. Scroll to travel, and click a print to turn it over.
Shanghai 2026 · 03 · 22
Hi, I’m Mengqing.
I grew up in southwest China and work as a software engineer. I used to want to be a writer; code won out day-to-day, but I still like clear sentences.
Think of this site as a small digital coffee shop: notes on software and markets, photographs, and short pieces of memoir.
Most of a trip fades. A frame or two stays. These are some of them.
01 · 33.58°N 102.96°E
Sichuan 四川 · 1997 —
Where I was born. In October 2025 I went back up to the grassland at Zoigê with a camera.
Zoigê, Sichuan 2025 · 10 · 03
Home
A small town in Sichuan. A pomelo tree in the backyard, an internet café that smelled of cigarettes and instant noodles, QQ messages typed on a nine-key phone at midnight.
At home they called me 弯弯: when I smiled as a kid, my eyes curved into crescents.
Later there were other roads — to the high-speed rail station, the airport, an office building. None of them felt like the road to the internet café.
02 · 53.27°N 9.05°W
Galway Ireland · Christmas
Christmas on the west coast of Ireland. No photograph from this one — just a coin.
Galway
The coin
I meant to leave it at the Cliffs of Moher with the others. On the way back an old man was playing the accordion in the wind, and I emptied my pocket into his case.
Almost. I kept one.
On the coach that night, it was still cold in my palm.
03 · 41.77°N 140.73°E
Hakodate 函館 · 2025.01
A winter trip through Hokkaido — Sapporo, Otaru, Noboribetsu — ending at blue hour on Mt. Hakodate.
Hakodate 2025 · 01 · 09
Blue hour
Clouds sat over the city most of the afternoon. By dusk the viewing deck was full, everyone waiting in the drizzle for the last bit of hope.
Then the wind thinned them out, and the lights came on street by street — the whole city held between two dark coastlines.
I left a little early to miss the crowds, and walked down into the Hakodate night.
04 · 22.29°N 114.17°E
Hong Kong 香港 · 2025.08
Victoria Harbour, August 2025.
Hong Kong 2025 · 08 · 09
Victoria Harbour
August 2025, stopped down to f/16.
No essay for this one yet. The photograph will have to do.
05 · 32.15°N 118.95°E
Nanjing 南京 · 2025.11
Red maples on Qixia Mountain at the end of November.
Qixia Mountain, Nanjing 2025 · 11 · 29
Qixia Mountain
The end of November, when the maples on Qixia Mountain turn.
Shot wide open at f/1.6: a few branches sharp, everything behind them dissolving.
06 · 31.23°N 121.47°E
Shanghai 上海 · now
Where I live and work, and where most of this site gets written.
Shanghai 2026 · 03 · 22
Now
I write software in Shanghai, and in between, the essays, market notes and photographs you’ll find here.
If something on this site stayed with you, say hello on GitHub.
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