Boursicot was arrested by French authorities on June 30, 1983, and Shi was arrested shortly thereafter. Shi and his adopted son were brought to Paris in 1982, after Boursicot was able to arrange for them to enter France. Shi later showed Shi Du Du, a four-year-old child that Shi insisted was their son, to Boursicot. When Boursicot was stationed outside of China, he saw Shi infrequently, but they maintained their sexual relationship. Īfter being discovered by the Chinese government, Boursicot was pressured into providing secret documents from his postings in Beijing from 1969 to 1972 and in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from 1977 to 1979. Shi convinced Boursicot that he was with a woman. The two quickly developed a sexual relationship, maintained in darkness.

He told Boursicot that he was 'a female Beijing opera singer who had been forced to live as a man to satisfy his father's wish to have a son'. Shi had been teaching Chinese to families of embassy workers. He first met Shi, then 26 years old, at a Christmas party in December 1964 the performer was dressed as a man. As recorded in his diary, Boursicot had previously had sexual relations only with fellow male students in school and wanted to meet a woman and fall in love. It opened in 1964 as the first Western mission in China since the Korean War. Relationship with Boursicot īernard Boursicot was born in France and was 20 years old when he obtained a job as an accountant at the French embassy in Beijing. In his 20s, Shi wrote plays about workers. By 17, Shi had become an actor and singer who had achieved some recognition. Shi grew up in Kunming in the southwestern province of Yunnan, where he learned French and attended the Yunnan University, graduating with a literature degree. He had two sisters who were significantly older than he was.

Shi's father was a college professor, and his mother was a teacher. It was adapted as the 1993 movie of the same title. Butterfly (1988), which was produced on Broadway. The affair inspired American David Henry Hwang's play M. The story made headlines in France when the facts were revealed. He claimed to have had a child that he insisted had been born through their relations. 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. Shi Pei Pu ( Chinese: 时佩璞 pinyin: Shí Pèipú Decem– June 30, 2009) was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. Yunnan University (University of Kunming)

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