[Editors’ note: Go to “Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On”, which took place on 3 June 2019.]

[Selected Works]
[Andy’s biography]

[Nelly Sachs’s “Corus of Orphans”]
[Susan’s biography]

[Yueran Zhang’s “The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square” | Guo Ting’s “The Upside Down World: Shadows of Cold War Ghosts in Stranger Things“]
[Ting’s biography]

[Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink]
[Amy’s biography]

[Xi Chuan’s “Beast”, translated into English by Lucas]
[Lucas’s biography]

[Duo Duo’s “Watching the Sea” and “I’ve Always Delighted in a Shaft of Light in the Depth of Light”, translated into English by Gregory]
[Gregory’s biography]

[Louisa Lim’s The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited]
[Louisa’s biography]

[Selected writings by Hon Lai Chu (including “Watching the Clouds”), translated into English by Andrea] [Andrea’s recording]
[Andrea’s biography]

In an email from Andrea to Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, she wrote:

When I think about all of us in our different time zones, it gives new meaning to the word “vigil”. I picture all of us on June 4 lighting candles in different time zones, so that while some are sleeping others are awake, and vice versa. This way, someone will always be keeping watch, and keeping the flames of democracy and freedom of expression burning.

[Seamus Heaney’s The Government of the Tongue]
[Timothy’s biography]

[Liu Xiaobo’s “For Seventeen (Commemorating the Second Anniversary of 6/4)”][William’s biography]

[Ilaria Maria Sala’s “Beijing Autumn: My Return to China Three Months After Tiananmen”]
[Ilaria’s biography]

[Sara Tung’s “We Are All Hongkongers”]
[Sara’s biography]

[Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Eulogy for the Martyred Children”]
[Albert’s biography]

[W. H. Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” |  Vaclav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless”][Emma’s biography]