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*''Born: [[1549]]''
*''Died: [[1598]]''
*''Chinese'': [[李]]如松 ''(Lǐ Rúsōng)''
Lǐ Rúsōng was a [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] general who led Chinese forces in helping to expel [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] forces from Korea during the First [[Korean Invasions]] in [[1592]].
Rusong was the son of Li Chengliang (1526-1615), an official of presumably Korean-Jurchen background, who held a hereditary post in the area of the [[Liaodong peninsula]], which his ancestors had held for some generations. Chengliang is also known to have fought for the Ming in a number of notable campaigns, chiefly against the [[Jurchens]].
Following Rusong's death in 1598, his descendants became subjects of the [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korean court, and fought for a time under Korean banners against the [[Manchus|Manchu]] forces of [[Nurhachi]]. Coming to be known as the Nongsŏ Yi lineage, they became a relatively prominent lineage of Ming descendants within Joseon Korea. Originally known as ''hyang hwain'', or "submitting-foreigners," a term with the connotation of people who came to Korea as a civilizational center, to become more civilized, more cultured, i.e. "morally transformed," a rhetoric and ideology adapted from the Chinese by the Koreans, beginning in the 1750s or so, Ming descendants including the Nongsŏ Yi were re-classified as ''hwang join'', or "imperial subjects," acknowledging them as remnants of the Great Ming. Meanwhile, Li Chengliang's descendants who remained under the [[Qing Dynasty]] became classified as either members of the Manchu or "martial Chinese" (''hanjun'') [[Eight Banners|banners]], a nice example of how constructed and changeable ethnic identity can be.
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==References==
*Bohnet, Adam. “Ruling Ideology and Marginal Subjects: Ming Loyalism and Foreign Lineages in Late Chosŏn Korea.” ''Journal of Early Modern History'' 15, no. 6 (January 1, 2011): 498.
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*''Died: [[1598]]''
*''Chinese'': [[李]]如松 ''(Lǐ Rúsōng)''
Lǐ Rúsōng was a [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] general who led Chinese forces in helping to expel [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] forces from Korea during the First [[Korean Invasions]] in [[1592]].
Rusong was the son of Li Chengliang (1526-1615), an official of presumably Korean-Jurchen background, who held a hereditary post in the area of the [[Liaodong peninsula]], which his ancestors had held for some generations. Chengliang is also known to have fought for the Ming in a number of notable campaigns, chiefly against the [[Jurchens]].
Following Rusong's death in 1598, his descendants became subjects of the [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korean court, and fought for a time under Korean banners against the [[Manchus|Manchu]] forces of [[Nurhachi]]. Coming to be known as the Nongsŏ Yi lineage, they became a relatively prominent lineage of Ming descendants within Joseon Korea. Originally known as ''hyang hwain'', or "submitting-foreigners," a term with the connotation of people who came to Korea as a civilizational center, to become more civilized, more cultured, i.e. "morally transformed," a rhetoric and ideology adapted from the Chinese by the Koreans, beginning in the 1750s or so, Ming descendants including the Nongsŏ Yi were re-classified as ''hwang join'', or "imperial subjects," acknowledging them as remnants of the Great Ming. Meanwhile, Li Chengliang's descendants who remained under the [[Qing Dynasty]] became classified as either members of the Manchu or "martial Chinese" (''hanjun'') [[Eight Banners|banners]], a nice example of how constructed and changeable ethnic identity can be.
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==References==
*Bohnet, Adam. “Ruling Ideology and Marginal Subjects: Ming Loyalism and Foreign Lineages in Late Chosŏn Korea.” ''Journal of Early Modern History'' 15, no. 6 (January 1, 2011): 498.
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
[[Category:Other Historical Figures]]