page_title: Shi Pei Pu
hierarchical_section_title: Shi Pei Pu
caption_attribution_description: English: Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu, before 1960.
context_page_description: Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. 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. 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.
  The affair inspired American David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly, which was produced on Broadway. It was adapted as the 1993 movie of the same title.
context_section_description: Shi Pei Pu (Chinese: 时佩璞; pinyin: Shí Pèipú; December 21, 1938 – June 30, 2009) was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. 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. 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. 
  The affair inspired American David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly (1988), which was produced on Broadway. It was adapted as the 1993 movie of the same title.
caption: Shi Pei Pu, before 1960.
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