Literary critic Wang Teh-wei believes that Li Yung-ping is committed to the idea of reviving China by reanimating written Chinese. He says, "His [Li's] love for finding just the exact word in his Chinese writings is something rarely seen."
文學評論家王德威認為，李永平是「復興中國必先以復興中國文字為先導」，「他對華文語彙修辭的愛戀摩挲，真是前所僅見。」