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 ...

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. Shi Pei Pu and his lover of over 20 years, Bernard Boursicot, were convicted of espionage in France and sentenced to six years in prison.

时佩璞，男，北京京剧团青年团的编剧、旦角演员兼团部秘书。 时佩璞学生时代就喜欢 京剧，曾与 关肃霜 合作演出。 他后来拜小生 姜妙香 为师，曾经在 北大礼堂 演出《奇双会》。 1964年，时佩璞与当时驻北京的法国外交官布尔西科相遇，对方误以为他是女儿身，两人开始长达20年交往关系。 1982年，时佩璞以应法国政府讲学的名义与布尔西科回到法国。 1983年6月30日，两人被法国安全局拘捕，并被判间谍罪，入狱六年。 同时，时佩璞男儿身的秘密被揭露，与布尔西科 …

Biography of Shi Peipu. 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.

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.

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 inspiration...

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

Jul 6, 2009 · Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese operatic soprano who along with his French lover was convicted of espionage and whose complicated affair inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play “M. Butterfly”...

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...

Aug 15, 1993 · Shi Pei Pu, the agents know from Boursicot, is a woman. The boy who answers the door is her son by Bernard Boursicot. But the pale creature who sits before them now wears a man's...