In Li Yung-ping's case, the rise of a Taiwan consciousness has made his deeply Chinese identity into a heavy burden. It has forced him to move beyond the Hakka language of his ancestors, and compelled him to learn the Taiwanese dialect, which appears frequently in his two later novels.
而李永平，則在台灣本土意識興起之後，陷溺已深的中國性成為沈重的負擔，迫使他跨越自己祖先的語言－－客家，去學習、咀嚼台灣的主流方言，並大量呈現在後來的兩部小說中。