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Bernard Boursicot (born 12 August 1944) is a French diplomat who was caught in a Chinese honeypot trap (seducing him to participate in espionage) by Shi Pei Pu, a male Peking opera singer who performed female roles, whom Boursicot claimed he believed to be female.
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 had a child that he insisted had been born through their relations.
Aug 15, 1993 · Bernard Boursicot, once and future spy, will arrive before a new safe will. He flies into Beijing in April 1977, and one of his concerns is espionage, the excitement of which he has frankly...
Jun 30, 2019 · In the mid-1960s, Shi was a mildly successful actor and Beijing opera singer when he met French diplomat Bernard Boursicot. Shi, who could speak fluent French, was also a Chinese teacher in the...
Nov 13, 2023 · 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.
Sep 21, 2017 · Former French embassy employee Bernard Boursicot, 41, left and Shi Pei Pu, 47, a singer in Chinese traditional opera face the judge as their trial began in Paris, May 5, 1986. Bouriscot is accused of having given Chinese officials unclassified diplomatic documents while assigned at the French embassy in Beijing from 1961 to 1972 and Shi Pei Pu ...
The relationship between Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu and French diplomat Bernard Boursicot intertwined deep personal deception with international spying. Their affair was significantly shaped...
Jul 2, 2009 · In the 1988 Broadway play and the 1993 film “M. Butterfly,” Bernard Boursicot was depicted as a high-ranking diplomat and Shi Pei Pu as a beautiful female opera singer who met in 1964.
May 11, 1986 · The case centered on a love affair between a young French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, now 41 years old, who was stationed in Peking two decades ago, and a popular Chinese opera singer, Shi...
Feb 4, 2021 · TIL about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, who worked at the French embassy as an accountant in Beijing in 1964 who had a 20-year affair with a Chinese actress, who turned out to be both a spy and a man in drag. The diplomat claims not to have known that his lover was actually a man.
