The Free China 1989 archive treats 绝食团 and 绝食团指挥部 as source- and phase-specific hunger-strike structures rather than as a single permanent authority over the entire movement.
Documented phase
The hunger strike began May 13, 1989. The current controlled crosswalk places the principal action phase through approximately May 20, while the precise formation and termination of formal command structures remain under source-by-source verification.
People
Source-controlled names associated with the hunger-strike structures include Chai Ling / 柴玲, Wang Dan / 王丹, Wang Wen / 王文, Ma Shaofang / 马少方, Wuer Kaixi / 吾尔开希, Zhang Jun / 张军, Guo Haifeng / 郭海峰, Feng Congde / 封从德, Zhang Boli / 张伯笠 and others. Each office and date must be verified separately.
Authority boundary
The archive does not automatically transfer the hunger strike’s moral authority or its internal command structure into the later May 19–22 joint command, the 48-hour transitional arrangement or the later 保卫天安门广场指挥部. Those are separate organizational phases with different claimed mandates.
Evidence status
Hunger-strike action phase: established. Exact command formation, full roster, offices and succession: incomplete. The project continues to seek contemporaneous rosters, notices, minutes, broadcasts and organization-issued documents.