Research On The Relationship Between Li Chengliang And The Political Situation Of Liaodong In Late Ming Dynasty

Late Ming Dynasty is a transforming society, from which China increased the distance with Western societies and the Ming Dynasty came down and Qing Dynasty thrived. The possessing and losing of the Liaodong plays an important role in the flourishing and declining of Ming Dynasty. To research the history of Late Ming, especially that of the Northeast, it's unavoidable to talk about General Li Chengliang who garrisoned Liaodong for thirty years from Jiajing, Longqing to Wanli. The paper takes Li Chengliang as a observing point, through analyzing political, economic, military and other factors which influenced the political structure of Liaodong, to trace the transforming of the political structure of Liaodong and find reasons for the declining of Liaodong and Ming Dynasty. It's unnecessary to say the academic importance of researching the rising and falling of Li Chengliang and his family and the flourishing and declining of Ming Dynasty.Marxism historical materialism is the main researching method of analyzing and solving problems, at the same time history study textual research and comparison method are also used, and the researching methods of politics, economics, strategics, ethnology, sociology and other disciplines are also used for reference. The author makes use of new historic material, new theories and new researching methods to study the Li Chengliang and the political structure in Liaodong of Late Ming, and evaluates the historic figure by the context of the era to draw conclusions about the trace and influence of the Liaodong political structure. The author broadens the view of research and strengthens the comparison study between the east and west by putting Li Chengliang and Liaodong political structure into the background of the globalization. The author commands dialectical, developing and connecting views to probe the relationship between the world and China, between the area south of Yellow River and Liaodong. By the theory of globalization, the author points out the inevitability of political transforming in Liaodong. For China, to take advantage of the opportunity and to keep abreast with the time is the only way to catch up with the world trend.The paper sees through the relation between the individual and the times through the research of Li Chengliang and the times. Li Chengliang lives in the age of Mind Dynasty coming down and Mongolia and Nüzhen coming prosperous. His activities have a tight tie with the history of Liaodong. So the success and failure, ups and downs of Li Chengliang not only reflected the officialdom of Liaodong, but also reflected the changes of the political situation of LiaoDong.As a beneficiary of Zhang Juzheng Reform and a seaman of late Ming Dynasty, Li...