Li Rusong

• Born: 1549
• Died: 1598
• Chinese: 李如松 (Lǐ Rúsōng)

Lǐ Rúsōng was a Ming general who led Chinese forces in helping to expel 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.

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.