20世紀末，學界提出「潛在寫作」的概念以概括一種特殊的寫作現象，即一些作家的寫作，在當時不是為了發表或無法發表，直到若干年後才公開出版發行。近十年的馬華文壇，一些「潛在寫作」的出現，讓我們得以一探曾被遮蔽於公共領域的文字與聲音。金枝芒（1912-1988）的（馬共）軍旅文學即是值得關注的其中一類。他1930年代從中國來馬來亞，從南來文人、報人轉為「帶筆」從戎的馬共成員，直到21世紀，他的「地下寫作」才公開出版。本文以金枝芒為例，翼望以「潛在寫作」的概念來探勘馬來西亞華人的另類寫作及其文學史的定位，同時探討此類寫作對於馬華文學的學科建制所起的作用。

At the end of the 20th century, the concept of “latent writing” was applied in academia to summarize a special writing phenomenon, which is, some writing was not for publication or unpublishable at that time, and it was published after several years later. The emergence of some “potential writing” in the Malaysian Chinese literature in the recent ten years has allowed us to explore the words and sounds that have been obscured in the public domain. Jin Zhimang’s (1912-1988) military literature is one of the categories which worthy of attention. He came to Malaya from China in the 1930s, and turned from a southern writer and editor to a member of the Communist Party of Malaya. Until the 21st century, his “underground writing” works were published publicly. This article takes Jin Zhimang as an example, to investigative the “latent writing” and its status in the literary history. At the same time, it will discuss the contribution of such writing in the discipline of Malaysian Chinese literature.