[DOC] [TLE] Review/Theater - 'M. Butterfly,' a Story Of a Strange Love, Conflict ... [PAR] Mar 21, 1988 ... Not only had the French diplomat failed to recognize that his lover was a spy; he'
d ... true-life tale of a career French foreign service officer brought to ruin - 
conviction for espionage - by a bizarre 20-year affair with a Beijing Opera diva. ... 
to play women in Chinese opera because ''only a man knows how a... [DOC] [TLE] M. Butterfly - Wikipedia [PAR] M. Butterfly is a play by David Henry Hwang loosely based on the relationship 
between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a male Peking 
opera singer. ... Unable to face the fact that his "perfect woman" is actually a man, 
that has ... It starts from the very beginning of his story: he chooses a Chinese 
woman as... [DOC] [TLE] Shi Pei Pu - Wikipedia [PAR] Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy who 
obtained secrets during a 20-year-long sexual affair ... By 17, Shi was an actor/
singer who had achieved some recognition. ... 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". [DOC] [TLE] Bernard Boursicot - Wikipedia [PAR] Bernard Boursicot (born on 12 August 1944) is a French diplomat who was 
caught in a ... Boursicot was born in 1944 and first met Shi Pei Pu in China while 
posted to the ... in Paris, where he enjoyed his notoriety and performed as an 
opera singer. ... having first come to know him socially and in a close friendship 
as a man. [DOC] [TLE] Vienna, June 20 - The New Yorker [PAR] Jun 30, 1986 ... LETTER FROM EUROPE about the career of Kurt Waldheim, from his work in the 
... Austria's affair with Kurt Waldheim is a little like the affair between the French ... 
A diplomat here with a clearer head than M. Boursicot's said the other day .... 
Every Austrian with a connection to the Nazi Party had to fill out a... [DOC] [TLE] cultural context - English 328 - Professor Finn - home [PAR] May 11, 2010 ... Rene Gallimard, a former French diplomat who has been ... Gallimard is an 
unimpressive man, .... love with a Chinese actress, who subsequently turned out 
to be not only ... true-life tale of a career French foreign service officer brought to 
ruin ... how the opera singer, named Song Liling , pulled his hocus-... [DOC] [TLE] 'The Diplomat' on ESPN: Katarina Witt, The 'Most Beautiful Face' of ... [PAR] Aug 6, 2013 ... 'The Diplomat': Socialism's Most Beautiful Face ... in scarlet and black skates 
silently out in front of the crowd that has packed into the ... If she lands her jumps 
and wows the judges, the chance at a professional career awaits. .... practiced, 
turned friends and colleagues into informants, and even meddled in... [DOC] [TLE] text - Julio Jeha [PAR] all in love with someone who turns out to be someone else entirely? How ... falls 
in love with a man who he thinks is an attractive woman. ... A former French 
diplomat and a Chinese opera singer have been sentenced to ..... ever want me, 
so, yes, I would settle for a quickleap up the career ladder. ..... SONG:  it's 
ruined. [DOC] [TLE] Blog  J. W. Freiberg [PAR] Sep 6, 2016 ... The Man Who Would be a Woman Act Six, Scene Two: The ... Simultaneously, 
Shi Pei Pu explained to the audience that the opera from .... He had moved out 
and was living very much on his own. ..... Liason: The Gripping Real Story of the 
Diplomat Spy and the Chinese Opera Star Whose Affair Inspired M. [DOC] [TLE] Who's Who Underneath the Kimono? Queer Mysteries of M. Butterfly [PAR] the French diplomat and the Chinese spy lived. This is why ... on how a French 
diplomat and a Jngj performer with the Beijing opera had been sentenced to six

Question: Diplomat has affair with Chinese opera diva who turns out to be a man; diplomat's career is ruined
Answer: "M. Butterfly"