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Shi Pei Pu was born on 21 December, 1938 in Shandong, Republic of China, is a Chinese spy and opera singer (1938–2009). Discover Shi Pei Pu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Opera singer, spy
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 21 December, 1938
Birthday 21 December
Birthplace Shandong, Republic of China
Date of death 30 June, 2009
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality China

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1938

Shi Pei Pu (December 21, 1938 – June 30, 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 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.

1964

It opened in 1964 as the first Western mission in China since the Korean War.

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.

He first met Shi, then 26 years old, at a Christmas party in December 1964; the performer was dressed as a man.

Shi had been teaching Chinese to families of embassy workers.

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".

The two quickly developed a sexual relationship, maintained in darkness.

Shi convinced Boursicot that he was a woman.

1969

After 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.

He took more than 500 documents.

When Boursicot was stationed outside of China, he saw Shi infrequently, but they maintained their sexual relationship.

Shi later showed Shi Du Du (时度度), a four-year-old child that Shi insisted was their son, to Boursicot.

1982

Shi and his adopted son were brought to Paris in 1982, after Boursicot was able to arrange for them to enter France.

1983

Boursicot was arrested by French authorities on June 30, 1983, and Shi was arrested shortly thereafter.

In police custody, Shi explained to doctors how he had hidden his genitals to convince Boursicot that he was a woman.

And as the French doctors sent to examine Pei Pu discovered, he could create the appearance of having female genitalia by making his testicles ascend into his body cavity and tucking his penis back.

He said that Shi Du Du, their purported son, was a Uyghur from China's Xinjiang Province who was sold by his mother and adopted by Shi Pei Pu.

Upon discovering the truth of their relationship, Boursicot attempted suicide by slitting his throat but survived.

The public disclosure of the long-term affair made Boursicot the subject of widespread ridicule in France.

1986

Shi and Boursicot were each convicted of espionage in 1986 and sentenced to six years in prison.

1987

Shi was pardoned by President of France François Mitterrand April 10, 1987, as part of an effort to defuse tensions between France and China over what was described as a "very silly" and unimportant case.

Boursicot was pardoned in August of that year.

1988

The affair inspired American David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly (1988), which was produced on Broadway.

The affair inspired David Henry Hwang's 1988 play M. Butterfly.

B.D. Wong played Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer and spy based on Shi Pei Pu, in the original Broadway production of the play.

After his pardon, Shi returned to performing as an opera singer.

He was reluctant to share the details of his relationship with Boursicot, stating that he "used to fascinate both men and women" and that "What I was and what they were didn't matter."

Shi spoke infrequently with Boursicot over the subsequent years.

However, in the months before Shi's death, he told Boursicot that he still loved him.

1993

It was adapted as the 1993 film of the same title.

Shi's father was a college professor, and his mother was a teacher.

He had two sisters who were significantly older than he was.

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.

By 17, Shi had become an actor and singer who had achieved some recognition.

In his 20s, Shi wrote plays about workers.

Bernard Boursicot was born in France and was hired at the age of 20 as an accountant at the French embassy in Beijing.

2009

Shi was said to be 70 years old when he died on June 30, 2009, in Paris.