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.