Once on a Moonless NightBy: Dai Sijie A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutraonce owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of Chinais illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul dAmpere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text. A young Western scholar in China hears this account from the grocer Toomchooq, whose name mysteriously connects him to the document. She falls in love with both teller and tale, but when