台灣往往被視為世界版圖裡邊緣、弱勢、受壓抑的位置，這雖反映 台灣政治現實困境，卻同時遮蔽從不同角度思考台灣的世界位置。本文 挪用卡薩諾瓦（Pascale Casanova）的「文學世界共和國」（the world republic of letters）概念，將台灣視為具有影響力且足以認可邊陲作家的 認可機制核心，以期構築「世界中」台灣文學的複雜面貌。這一篇文章 分析的個案是在台馬華小說家李永平，透過他在台灣經營文學事業所面臨的種種現實挑戰，具體梳理台灣文學機制的運作如何介入東南亞移民作家的創作。

Taiwan is often perceived as an unrecognized, peripheral, and marginalized country on the global landscape. This perspective reflects Taiwan’s political predicament in some sense, but conceals its global position from other angles. To “worlding” literary Taiwan in more complex worldly relations, this article borrows Pascale Casanova’s notion of “the world republic of letters,” considering Taiwan as the center that exercises influence as well as possesses the affirmative power to recognize writers from more peripheral regions. This article studies the literary works of Li Yongping, a Sinophone Malaysian writer who chooses to develop his literary career in Taiwan. It contends that Li Yongping’s road to becoming a writer of Taiwan enhances our understanding of how Taiwanese literary institutions intervene in the writings of migrant writers from Southeast Asian countries.