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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.
Nov 13, 2023 · Shi Pei Pu was a male opera singer who posed as a woman for 18 years to seduce Bernard Boursicot, a French diplomat. He used his lover's secrets to spy for China until they were caught and convicted in 1983.
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...
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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....
Then Madame Shi gave birth to Pei Pu, and Pei Pu was a girl -- yes, a girl. So Pei Pu's parents and the midwife made a pact: they agreed to lie to the grandmother and raise the child...
Jul 4, 2019 · A French accountant falls in love with a Chinese opera star who is a man pretending to be a woman, and a spy for the Chinese government. The article explores the history, the scandal, and the musical inspired by this bizarre and tragic story.
Jul 4, 2009 · The man’s name was Shi Pei Pu, the Beijing opera singer and spy who died in Paris last week.
