The present paper argues that the primary concern of Li Yongping's Yuxue feifei: Poluozhou tongnian jishi [Snowflakes flying: Chronicle of my Borneo childhood] (2002) is not the representation of his national and cultural identities, despite his dramatization of related topics in certain episodes/chapters of the novel/memoir, but an inward journey in search of his self or personal identity. By the same token, Li employs this journey as narrative frame not so much to frame his recollections of a tropical homeland but as a frame of reference or lens through which we may view his introspective journey into the heart of darkness. Having chosen a life of self-imposed exile in Taiwan, Li Yongping the protagonist/Li Yongping the author, being estranged by the decadence of metropolitan Taiwanese culture, turns to an inward journey by writing/telling the past and hence finding his self or personal identity in an imaginary homeland.