SHI PEI PU'S RELATIONSHIP WITH BOURISCOT

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Pei_Pu 

Shi Pei Pu (Chinese: 时佩璞; pinyin: Shí Pèipú; 21 December 1938 – 30 June 2009)^[1] was a Chinese opera singer and spy. He obtained classified information from Bernard Boursicot, an employee at the French embassy, during a 20-year sexual relationship in which he convinced Boursicot that he was a woman. Shi also claimed to have a child, a Uyghur boy whom he insisted was the result of their relationship. The case drew significant media attention in France when the true circumstances were revealed.

The affair inspired American playwright David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly (1988), which was produced on Broadway and was adapted into the 1993 film of the same title. 

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Relationship with Boursicot

Bernard Boursicot was born in France and was hired at the age of 20 as an accountant at the French embassy in Beijing. It opened in 1964 as the first Western mission in China since the Korean War.^[2] 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.^[3] He first met Shi, then 26 years old, at a Christmas party in December 1964; the performer was dressed as a man.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Shi and his adopted son were brought to Paris in 1982, after Boursicot was able to arrange for them to enter France. Boursicot was arrested by French authorities on 30 June 1983, and Shi was arrested shortly thereafter.^[2] In police custody, Shi explained to doctors how he had hidden his genitals to convince Boursicot that he was a woman. As the French doctors sent to examine Shi discovered, Shi could create the appearance of having female genitalia by making his testicles ascend into his body cavity and tucking his penis back.^[4] Shi said that their purported son was a Uyghur from China's Xinjiang Province who was sold by his mother and adopted by Shi.^[5][6] 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.^[3] 

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