Butterfly (1988 film adaptation 1993) by Chinese-American David Henry Hwang. Shi’s story inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play M. They were each sentenced to six years in prison, but since the documents passed were of minimal political significance, after 11 months both were pardoned and released. The two were arrested in 1983 and charged with espionage. The Security Service made a significant contribution to the success of D-Day through its double agent Juan Pujol, codenamed GARBO, who has been described as the. Shi and his “son,” whom he had purchased from a doctor in China, joined Boursicot in Paris, where Shi won acceptance in the French community with his cultural performances, even appearing on television. Boursicot turned over as many as 150 French embassy documents through Shi to the Chinese secret service before returning to France in the early 1980s. Shi convinced Boursicot that he was actually a woman disguised as a man, and the two began a love affair that continued for 20 years, during which time Shi also told Boursicot that he had become pregnant and had a son. Shi met French embassy clerk Bernard Boursicot in Beijing in 1964, while teaching Chinese to diplomats’ families. One of the most unusual cases in espionage history involved Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu.
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