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Shi Pei Pu 21 December 1938 – June 30, 2009) was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy who obtained secrets during a 20-year-long affair in which he convinced an employee in the French Embassy that he was a woman, later producing a child that he insisted had been born through their relations. The story made headlines in France when it came to light and became the basis for the 1988 play M. Butterfly and the 1993 movie of the same title.
