All articles starting with X

Xiang Yu's burning of the Xianyang palaces

Xiang Yu's burning of the Xianyang palaces (项羽烧咸阳) was his 206 BC destruction of the Qin capital, killing Zi Ying in a fire said to burn three months.

Xiang Yu's enfeoffment of the eighteen kings

Xiang Yu's enfeoffment of the eighteen kings (項羽分封十八王) was his 206 BC partition of the fallen Qin empire among eighteen kings, which soon collapsed into the Chu–Han war.

Sep 24, 2026

Xiang Yu's massacre of Xiangcheng

Xiang Yu's massacre of Xiangcheng (项羽屠襄城) was the burial alive of the inhabitants of Xiangcheng by Xiang Yu after the city held firm during the anti-Qin rebellion.

Sep 23, 2026

Xiang Yu's sack of Xianyang

Xiang Yu's sack of Xianyang (项羽屠咸阳) was the massacre, looting, and burning of the Qin dynasty capital Xianyang by the rebel general Xiang Yu in 206 BC.

Xiang Yu's threat to boil Liu Bang's father

Xiang Yu's threat to boil Liu Bang's father (项羽欲烹太公) was a Chu-Han contention episode in which Liu Bang, refusing to yield, asked to share a cup of the broth.

Sep 21, 2026

Xiang Zhou (molecular biologist, University of Michigan)

Xiang Zhou is an American statistical geneticist and biostatistician, creator of the GEMMA genome-wide association tool and SPARK methods for spatially expressed genes, now a Yale professor.

Sep 23, 2026

Xiang Zhuang

Xiang Zhuang (项庄) is a figure from the Records of the Grand Historian, known for a failed sword-dance assassination attempt at the banquet at Hongmen.

Sep 20, 2026

Xiang-Dong Fu (傅向东) is a Chinese-American RNA biologist who co-discovered the SR splicing proteins and the SRPK kinase family, and applies RNA biology to regenerative medicine, including converting glial cells into neurons.

Xiangchi Technology (XCC) (company)

Xiangchi Technology (芯驰科技, also known as SemiDrive) is a Chinese fabless automotive chip company founded in 2018 in Beijing, known for its X9 cockpit chips and E3 microcontrollers, with over 12 million chips shipped by 2026.

Xiangdao Chuxing

享道出行, also known as EnjoyGo Technology Limited, is a Shanghai-based mobility platform backed by SAIC Motor that offers ride-hailing, corporate leasing, and Robotaxi services across 100 Chinese cities.

Sep 21, 2026

Xiangdong Ji

Xiangdong Ji (季向东) is a nuclear and high-energy theoretical physicist at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, known for the proton spin decomposition, LaMET, and leading the PandaX dark matter experiment.

Sep 21, 2026

Xiangdong Yao

Xiangdong Yao (姚向东), born 1967, is a Chinese electrocatalysis researcher known for defect electrocatalysis, formerly a chair professor at Griffith University and now founding dean at Sun Yat-sen University.

Sep 20, 2026

Xiangfeng Duan

Xiangfeng Duan (段镶锋) is a materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA whose laboratory works on nanoscale materials and devices for electronics, energy, and health technologies.

Xianghai

Xianghai (向海) National Nature Reserve, a 1,055 km² Ramsar wetland in Tongyu county, Jilin, China, in the Horqin Grassland; protects red-crowned cranes and Mongolian elm woodlands, with major water replenishment and a 2016–2023 public trusteeship restoration.

Xianghong Cao

Xianghong Cao (Cao Xianghong, 曹湘洪) is a Chinese petrochemical engineer who served as chief engineer of Sinopec and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999.

Oct 15, 2026

Xiangjiaba hydroelectric plant

Xiangjiaba hydroelectric plant (向家坝水电站) is a 6,400 MW hydropower station on the lower Jinsha River, the upper Yangtze, in southwestern China, fully in service in 2014 and China's fifth largest.

Xiangjun Zhi

Xiangjun Zhi (湘军志), a history of the Hunan Army by scholar Wang Kaiyun, is a valued eyewitness account of suppressing the Taiping and Nian rebellions.

Xiangli Chen

Xiangli Chen is an engineer and former General Electric vice president who led the GE China Technology Center and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Sep 19, 2026

Xiangpiaopiao

Xiangpiaopiao (香飘飘) is a Chinese beverage maker founded in Huzhou, Zhejiang, in 2005, best known for creating China's cup milk tea category and holding its No.1 market share from 2012 to 2024.

Xiangqi

Xiangqi (象棋), Chinese chess, is a two-player board game on a 9x10 intersection board with a river, palaces, and a screen-jumping cannon; stalemate is a loss, and its world body is the WXF.

Oct 15, 2026

XiangShan (processor)

XiangShan (香山) is an open-source high-performance RISC-V processor project started in 2019 by the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with its first chip taped out in 2021.

Xiangshan Film and Television Town

Xiangshan Film and Television Town (象山影视城), also Xiangshan Film City or Xiangshan Global Studios, is a film studio and AAAA tourist attraction in Xiangshan County, Ningbo, Zhejiang, known for costume dramas like Nirvana in Fire and Joy of Life, with six themed zones and Asia's largest underwater studio.

Xiangsu Powder

香苏散 (Xiangsu Powder, Xiang Su San; Japanese Kōso-san) is a four-herb classic Chinese medicine formula (cyperus, perilla leaf, licorice, tangerine peel) first recorded in Song dynasty formulary texts, originally for wind-cold colds with qi stagnation, now used mainly for gastrointestinal complaints.

Xiangtan

Xiangtan (湘潭市), a prefecture-level city in Hunan on the Xiang River, forms the Chang-Zhu-Tan region with Changsha and Zhuzhou; it administers Shaoshan, Mao Zedong's birthplace, and is a steel, electrical machinery, and education center.

Oct 15, 2026

Xiangtan power station

Xiangtan power station (大唐华银湘潭发电厂) is an operating 1,800 MW coal-fired power station in Shuangma, Xiangtan, Hunan, China, on the Xiang River, owned by China Datang group subsidiary Datang Huayin.

Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou

Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (湘西土家族苗族自治州), the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, is Hunan's only minority autonomous prefecture, established 20 September 1957 in the Wuling Mountains, with 15,500 km2, 7 counties plus Jishou, and a mostly Tujia and Miao population.