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Shi Pei Pu (Chinese: 时佩璞; pinyin: Shí Pèipú; 21 December 1938 – 30 June 2009) 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 have ...
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.
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.
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...
Jul 4, 2009 · The man’s name was Shi Pei Pu, the Beijing opera singer and spy who died in Paris last week.
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 4, 2019 · Boursicot stays in contact with Pei Pu, who tells him their son, a now four-year-old named Shi Du Du, has been sent to a village by the border of the USSR for safekeeping during the Cultural Revolution.
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” and the...
Jun 1, 2022 · On June 30, 2009, Shi Pei Pu died in a Parisian nursing home at 70. Born in Shandong Province, Shi had enthralled Europe with his* operatic singing and graceful stage presence in the 1960s. And he’d managed to capture the heart of French diplomat Bernard Boursicot along the way.
