num_pages: 112
description: A play based on the true story of a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, posted to Peking, who fell in love with a seductive opera singer, named Shi Pei Pu, apparently unaware that Pei Pu was a man.
language: English
title: M. Butterfly
titlecomplete: M. Butterfly
characters: Rene Gallimard, Song Liling
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, LGBT, Drama, School, Read For School, Classics, College, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 14014
publisher: Plume