How to Pronounce Shi Pei Pu
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Dec 21, 1938 Shandong, China Died on 30 Jun 2009 (aged 70)
Chinese opera singer, spy
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About Shi Pei Pu
- Shi Pei Pu (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Shí Pèipú; 21 December 1938 – June 30, 2009) was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing.
- He became a spy who obtained secrets from Bernard Boursicot, an employee in the French embassy, during a 20-year-long sexual affair in which the performer convinced the man that he was a woman.
- He claimed to have had a child that he insisted had been born through their relations.
- The story made headlines in France when the facts were revealed.
- The affair inspired American David Henry Hwang's play M.
- Butterfly (1988), which was produced on Broadway.
- It was adapted as the 1993 movie of the same title.
