Abstract: Lai Teck was Secretary-General of Communist Party of Malaya. He enjoyed high prestige in the party. He was also a triple agent for France, the UK and Japan and launched waves of disastrous destruction to the Party. The man who exposed his atrocity and put an end to his life, however, was Chin Peng, his successor and a man that he most trusted. What kind of man is Lai Teck? What is his purpose? What are his relations with Chin Peng? All these become core issues in the study of history of WWII in Southeast Asia, of international communist movement and of spy warfare.

Key words: Lai Teck; Chin Peng; Communist Party of Malaya; spy warfare; Ng Yeh Lu

Yang Zhengrun is Professor of Chinese Literature in School of Humanities at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is Director of the Center for Life Writing at SJTU, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Modern Life writing Studies, and Manager-in-chief of the State-Sponsored Major Project “Compilation and Research of Overseas Life writing on Modern Chinese People” (IN：11&ZD138). His publications include Biography: A Historical Survey (1994) , Poetics of Modern Biography (2010), and numerous articles on biography study.