Shi Pei Pu (Chinese: 时佩璞; pinyin: Shí Pèipú; 21 December 1938 – 30 June 2009) [1] was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy and obtained secrets from Bernard Boursicot, an employee in the French embassy, during a 20-year-long sexual affair in which the performer convinced Boursicot that he was a woman. He claimed to ...

Jun 30, 2019 · Shi Peipu, a Chinese opera singer who was born in Shandong province, died in a French nursing home in Paris, aged 70, on June 30, 2009. An aide revealed his death to Agence France-Presse. Jeremy...

Nov 13, 2023 · A male opera singer from Beijing, Shi Pei Pu posed as a woman and embarked on a 20-year-long sexual affair with French embassy employee Bernard Boursicot.

Apr 3, 2024 · During his time teaching Chinese to families of employees of the French embassy in Beijing, playwright, actor and singer Shi Pei Pu met accountant Bernard Boursicot in 1964. Shi told the accountant he'd been forced to dress like a man and brought up as one at his parents wishes, but was really a female Beijing opera singer and the pair then ...

Jul 4, 2019 · Shi Pei Pu was anything but forgettable, a rising opera star in the city who enraptured her soon-to-be lover, and eventual father of her child after a chance meeting at a party. Soon, the wheels were in motion for happily ever after – until they not only came to a screeching halt, but fully derailed.

Apr 11, 2024 · The relationship between Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu and French diplomat Bernard Boursicot intertwined deep personal deception with international spying.

Shi Peipu, a Chinese opera singer and spy, was involved in a 20-year relationship with Bernard Boursicot, who remained unaware of Shi Peipu's true identity. This story became widely known in the late 1980s and later inspired the play "M. Butterfly" by Chinese-American writer and playwright David Henry Hwang.

Jul 2, 2009 · Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera singer and spy whose sexually convoluted love affair with a French Embassy worker created one of the strangest cases in international espionage and was the...

Oct 20, 2022 · The Chinese spy named Shi Pei Pu was an opera singer born in the Shandong province of China, and died in a French nursing home in Paris, in 2009. His father was a professor and his mother was...

Jul 5, 2009 · THE sexually convoluted love affair between Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera singer and spy, and a French embassy worker created one of the strangest cases in international espionage and was the inspiration for the Broadway show M. Butterfly.