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Xian (Taoism)
Xian (仙), also written 僊 and known as Taoist Immortals or Sen'nin, are transcendent beings in Chinese Daoism: humans who attained long life or deathlessness, with godlike powers, through esoteric self-cultivation.
Xian Chen
Xian Chen is a biochemist and mass spectrometrist who developed amino acid-coded mass tagging for quantitative proteomics and won a 1999 PECASE award at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Xian Dongmei
Xian Dongmei (冼东妹), born 1975 in Sihui, Guangdong, is a Chinese judoka who won Olympic gold in the women's 52 kg half-lightweight division at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, later leading the Chinese Judo Association.
Xian Le Pin
Xian Le Pin (鲜乐拼) is a Chinese community group-buying platform for fresh produce and household goods, launched in May 2018 in Shijiazhuang and operated by Beijing Tianxia Yimao Technology.
Xian Lim
Xian Lim (Alexander Xian Cruz Lim-Uy; born 1989) is a Filipino-Chinese actor, director, singer, and pilot who rose to fame on ABS-CBN starting in 2008.
Xianbei (鲜卑)
Xianbei (鲜卑), a nomadic steppe confederation of Donghu origin, rose after the Xiongnu collapse, defeated the Northern Xiongnu in 155 AD, and founded the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534); Tuoba elites adopted Chinese customs under Emperor Xiaowen.
Xiandai
Xiandai ("Modern," often rendered Les Contemporains) was a large-format Chinese literary monthly published in Shanghai from 1932 to 1935, edited by Shi Zhecun and central to 1930s modernist writing.
Xiandao Bomo (先导薄膜)
Xiandao Bomo (先导薄膜) is a Chinese manufacturer of sputtering targets and evaporation materials founded by Zhu Shihui in 2017, ranked first worldwide in ITO targets with over 30% global share.
Xiandeng Thin Film (先导薄膜)
Xiandeng Thin Film, also known as Xiandeng Electronic Technology (先导电子科技股份有限公司), is a Chinese maker of sputtering targets and evaporation materials, founded in 2017 and controlled by Zhu Shihui.
Xianfeng Emperor (咸丰帝)
The Xianfeng Emperor, personal name Yizhu (奕詝) and temple name Wenzong, was the ninth emperor of China's Qing dynasty, reigning from 1850 until his death in 1861.
Xianfeng literature
Xianfeng literature (先锋文学, "avant-garde literature") is a current of experimental Chinese fiction and poetry that arose in the mid-1980s, with representative writers including Ma Yuan, Can Xue, Ge Fei, and Yu Hua.
Xiang
The Xiang River, also called Xiangjiang (湘江), is a major Yangtze tributary flowing about 844 km north through Hunan into Dongting Lake, and is Hunan's namesake abbreviation.
Xiang Army
The Xiang Army (湘军) was a Qing dynasty regional army raised from Hunan militia and paid volunteers under Zeng Guofan, the principal force against the Taiping Rebellion that shifted military power to provincial commanders.
Xiang Binxuan
Xiang Binxuan (向玢璇, born 2001) is a Chinese artistic swimmer from Dazhou, Sichuan, who won team gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, China's first Olympic title in artistic swimming.
Xiang Bo
Xiang Bo (項伯), personal name Xiang Chan, was a Chu noble and Xiang Yu's youngest uncle who shielded Liu Bang at the Hongmen banquet and won him Hanzhong.
Xiang clan
The Xiang clan (项氏) was a hereditary lineage of Chu generals, led by Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu, that rose against the Qin dynasty and was absorbed into the Han.
Xiang Furen
Xiang Furen (湘夫人, The Lady of the Xiang) is a poem in the Nine Songs section of the Chu Ci, attributed to the Warring States poet Qu Yuan.
Xiang Gao
Xiang Gao is a Chinese venture capitalist and founding partner of Gaorong Capital, which he cofounded in 2014, best known for early investments in Huya and Tudou.
Xiang Guangda
Xiang Guangda (项光达) is the Chinese founder of Tsingshan Holding Group, the world's largest stainless steel producer, which he built from a 1988 Wenzhou workshop into a Fortune Global 500 company.
Xiang H.-F. Zhang
Xiang H.-F. Zhang, also published as Xiang (Shawn) Zhang, is an American cancer biologist at Baylor College of Medicine who studies how cancers colonize bone.
Xiang He
Xiang He Capital, also known as Xiang He Partners, is a Palo Alto venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in Chinese technology companies.
Xiang Lang
Xiang Lang (向朗), courtesy name Juda, was a Shu Han official and scholar of the Three Kingdoms period, dismissed by Zhuge Liang over the Ma Su affair.
Xiang Liang
Xiang Liang was a Qin-dynasty noble of Chu who, with his nephew Xiang Yu, led the anti-Qin rebellion until he died in battle at Dingtao.
Xiang Liang's uprising in Wu
Xiang Liang's uprising in Wu (项梁起兵) was the 209 BC anti-Qin rising at Wu, where Xiang Liang and his nephew Xiang Yu killed the governor and raised 8,000 men.
Xiang Rong
Xiang Rong (向荣, 1792–1856) was a Qing dynasty field commander from Sichuan who rose from the ranks and directed the war against the Taiping rebels from the Jiangnan camp.
Xiang shi fu
Xiang Shi Fu (相十副, also Can Chan 參禪, Zen) is a Qing-era Chinese domino solitaire: rearrange 32 tiles into ten valid triplets and one valid pair, with nine triplet types and five dead groups.
Xiang Xiu
Xiang Xiu (向秀), courtesy name Ziqi, was a third-century Chinese thinker of the Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, known for his commentary on the Zhuangzi.
Xiang Yan
Xiang Yan (项燕) was a general of Chu during the Warring States period, remembered for resisting Qin's conquest and for the rebellion later launched in his name.
Xiang Yanmei
Xiang Yanmei (向艳梅), Chinese weightlifter born 1992 in Hunan; Olympic gold 2016 women's 69 kg (261 kg total) and world champion 2013 and 2015.
Xiang Yu
Xiang Yu (项羽, personal name Xiang Ji, c. 232-202 BC) was the Hegemon-King of Western Chu who led the revolt toppling the Qin dynasty and lost the Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC) to Liu Bang, defeated at Gaixia.