The Historical Thinking Of Ji Liuqi In Mingjibeilve And Mingjinanlve

Ji Liuqi,whose given name is Yongbin,was born in the year of Tianqi II in Ming Dynasty. During his lifetime, there were great transformations appeared in China, such as the Political Corruption, The invasion of Qing and The Dynasty Changes. For those transformations, Individual Contemporary History Studies became popular among the intellectuals and the same things happened in Ji Liuqi too. Although Ji Liuqi was poverty, he also continued to write for his responsibilities and ambitions. He spent all his spare time in looking for materals, and spent many years for his preparation and finishing his books. He had written a lot of books, for exanple,the Yuedianjiwen, Jintanyu’an, and Nanjingjilve, But the culture management of the Qing Dynasty is very strict, those books, which full of Special emotion, can not be publish. So the two books, Mingjinanlve and Mingjibeilve, were the most important works of him now.The replacement between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, deeply shocked all the intellectuals in China, including Ji Liuqi. In his two books, we can find the dissatisfaction about the late Ming’s polities, the anger for the polities of Qing, the love to his nation, and the depress to the current situation. This thesis will focused on the historical thinking of Ji Liuqi. Discussing the relationship between him and the historical study in the late Ming and the early Qing Dynasty. In order to find the main character of his historical thinking.As an ordinary intellectual, Ji Liuqi has a serious orthodox. In this two books, he dissatisfy with the atrocities about the Qing and the Insurgents, and the revolt of the people. As the Political Corruption of late Ming Dynasty and the replacement between the Qing and the Ming, he pay more attention to the late Ming’s polities, The collapse of the social order also give him a sense of destiny. Beside, in his books, He also make great effort to combine different historical methods together. All this is the embody of his historical thinking:ethnic separatism, paying more attention to the contemporary, the thinking of destiny, the attempt to combine different historical methods together, and the spirit of seeking truth from facts.