Inspired by two Burmese jade buttons I collected years ago, Wuxia films and graphic novels, Chinese romance novels, Korean historical dramas, and Yaoi fiction. An original poem plays with Western ideas of gender and allure. Fourteen linen and cotton fabric pages are decorated with hand-embroidered and machine-sewn details, free-hanging beadwork vines, digital prints of porcelain and cloisonné I’ve collected from thrift stores, and hand-drawn ink paintings on fabric and recycled buffalo bone plaques. Linen sewn tape binding anchors pages to two woodburned Brazil Cherry covers with accent cords of braided waxed polyester thread, glass, bone, porcelain, jade, and moss agate beads. Tucked into a back panel are two detachable working cufflinks made from the jade buttons, waxed polyester thread, and carved bone.