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The purpose of the study is trying to point out the process of the construction of Kinmen Studies under the operation of the negotiating politics. Kinmen has been limited by the geopolitical relationship, so it has stood at the cultural and political edge of Taiwan and China for a long period of time. After the end of the martial law and the rise of the local studies in 1990s, the sentiment against Taiwan and the crisis consciousness of marginalization forced Kinmen to face the urgent issue, self-presentation and positioning. Therefore, this study draws on the discussion of the recognition of Sinophone to Chineseness and the process of localization, and then proposes the concept of “Negotiating Politics”. Moreover, it points out the subject of Kinmen is “the subject of the negotiation”. Re-capture the public self-presentation and feedback mechanism of Kinmen itself in different phases by discussing the publishing activities hosted by Kinmen County Government and the literary expression and cultural description of two Kinmen County writers, Yang Shu-Quing and Wu Chun-Yao, who cooperate with Kinmen County Government. The study claims that this kind of dynamic strategy in presentation and response, a flexible strategy developed from the interaction between subjects, such as they meet, communicate and conflict with each other, is “Negotiating Politics”. According to this claim, Kinmen County Government should position Kinmen as it is in Taiwan, in China, in Nanyang, and even in the world with the authority of Taiwan, Chinese society and the trend of thought in the world with a purposeful consideration, and it will remove the anxiety of the eliminating subject. In the end of the study, it points out the fact that the root of Wu Dao is diverse. When the resources from other places can be internalized, moved and re-discussed, Kinmen can follow different ways of “Negotiating Politics” to find back and construct the subject. |