ABSTRACT
By drawing on the works of Michael Szonyi, Rachel Carson, Chang-po Chen, Richard Fortey, and others, I argue that the intertidal zone of Jinmen has turned into a war zone since the lifting of martial law in 1992. I contend that this “silent war” at the edge of the sea has been even more damaging for the horseshoe crabs than the intensive shelling during the Cold War. I use the documentary The Lost Sea (2014) as a counter narrative to defy the anthropogenic extinction of the local intertidal species and to testify to the human alliance with the marine arthropods.
