{"id":4589,"date":"2019-06-04T00:35:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2019-06-04T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T03:08:14","slug":"matches-polished-into-lights-tiananmen-thirty-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Matches Polished into Lights: Tiananmen Thirty Years On
June 3, 2019, at Bleak House Books, Hong Kong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers: Jennifer Anne Eagleton, Guo Ting, Louisa Lim, William Nee, Mei Kwan Ng, Kate Rogers, and Lian-Hee Wee (with two special guest readers, Jeff Wasserstrom and Andrea Lingenfelter).
Moderator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For selected texts by featured speakers, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Tammy Ho’s piece, published as South China Morning Post<\/em>‘s “Young Post,” see here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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