After School brings together autobiography, photographs, collage, and archival documents to tell the story of my family’s struggle to run Futurelink, a 補習班, or after school program, in the San Gabriel Valley, CA. More broadly, it explores the complex role of after schools (known as cram schools) in Asian American enclaves, as they operate simultaneously as spaces of community, care, and control.
Bilingual English and Chinese
Copublished np: and Counterpath
ISBN 978-1-962365-08-6
8.5” x 11”
170 pages
Designed by Neeta Patel in New Haven, Conn. and printed in an edition of 200 by Standard Printing + Design Co. in Ypsilanti, Mich. on EarthChoice paper; French Paper Banana Split cardstock; and Inkpress transparency film. Type set in Times Dot, designed by Laurel Schwulst, and Songti TC.
This project was made possible with the support of the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) and the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
