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Xiao Xian

Xiao Xian (萧铣, 583–621) was a Sui-dynasty official of the imperial Xiao clan who rose from a county magistracy, surrendered to the Tang in 621, and was executed.

Xiao Xiao (小小作品)

Xiao Xiao (小小作品, Xiao Xiao No. 1–9) is a Chinese stick-figure Flash martial-arts animation series by Zhu Zhiqiang (朱志强), viral on FlashEmpire and Newgrounds from 2000–2002, famous for No. 3 and the 2003–2006 Nike copyright case.

Xiao Yan's campaign against Southern Qi

Xiao Yan's campaign against Southern Qi (萧衍起兵) was the military rising Xiao Yan, governor of Yongzhou and a Qi imperial clansman, launched at Xiangyang in the twelfth month.

Xiao Yanning

Xiao Yanning (肖雁宁), Chinese artistic swimmer born 1998 in Dazhou, Sichuan; Tokyo 2020 team silver, Paris 2024 team gold, China's first Olympic title in the sport; 16 world championship medals; retired 2025.

Xiao Yi

Xiao Yi (萧绎) was a ruler of the Southern Liang dynasty, son of Emperor Wu, who burned the imperial library of about 140,000 juan in 554.

Xiao Yu

Xiao Yu (萧瑀, 574–647) was a Sui and Tang dynasty statesman who served as chief minister under Emperors Gaozu and Taizong of Tang, honored with a portrait in the Lingyan Pavilion.

Xiao Yuncong

Xiao Yuncong (萧云从, 1596–1673) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet of the late Ming and early Qing, founder of the Gushu school of painting in Wuhu, Anhui.

Xiao Zhan (肖战)

Xiao Zhan (肖战), born 1991 in Chongqing, is a Chinese actor and singer, formerly of X NINE, famous as Wei Wuxian in The Untamed (2019), known for Legend of Zanghai, Gezhi Town, the Made To Love sales record, and the 2020 AO3 fan-reporting controversy.

Xiao Zhang

Xiao Zhang is a materials chemist working on electrocatalysis and carbon capture, trained at Nanyang Technological University and Rice University, now on the faculty of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Xiao Zhilong

Xiao Zhilong (肖志龙) is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Linlin Yi, a Suzhou community group-buying platform launched in March 2018 that raised nearly US$100 million before merging into rival Tongcheng Life in July 2020.

Xiao Zhizhong

Xiao Zhizhong (萧至忠), died 713, was a chief minister of the Tang dynasty under Emperors Zhongzong and Ruizong, executed in 713 for joining Princess Taiping's plot against Emperor Xuanzong.

Xiao Zixian

Xiao Zixian (萧子显), courtesy name Jingyang, was a Liang dynasty historian and official who compiled the Nan Qi shu, the official history of the Southern Qi dynasty.

Xiao-Gang Wen

Xiao-Gang Wen (文小刚) is a theoretical condensed matter physicist, Cecil and Ida Green Professor at MIT, who introduced topological order in 1989 and won the 2017 Buckley Prize and 2018 Dirac Medal.

Xiao‐Fan Wang

Xiao-Fan Wang (王小凡) is a Chinese-American molecular biologist at Duke University School of Medicine, known for cloning the TGF-β receptors and for research on TGF-β signaling, cellular senescence, and tumor immunology.

Xiao‐Jiang Li

Xiao-Jiang Li (李晓江) is a Chinese neuroscientist who discovered huntingtin-associated protein and built CRISPR-edited pig models of Huntington's disease, after a long career at Emory University.

Xiao‐Qing Yang

Xiao-Qing Yang is a battery researcher who leads the Electrochemical Energy Storage group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for in situ synchrotron characterization of battery materials.

Xiao'er Huangjin Zhike granules

Xiao'er Huangjin Zhike granules (小儿黄金止咳颗粒), also called Pediatric Golden Cough Granules, is a Class 1.1 innovative TCM approved by NMPA on 3 January 2025 for children's mild acute bronchitis cough with phlegm-heat obstructing lung syndrome.

Xiao'er Niuhuang Tuire patch

Xiao'er Niuhuang Tuire patch (小儿牛黄退热贴膏), a class 1.1 TCM gel patch approved by NMPA in April 2025 by Jianmin Group, treats fever ≤38.5°C from wind-heat AURI in children 1–5 via Dazhui and Shenque acupoint application.

Xiaobaodang No.1 Coal Mine

Xiaobaodang No.1 Coal Mine is a large underground coal mine in Shenmu, Shaanxi, China, operated by Shaanxi Xiaobaodang Mining Company with a capacity of 20 million tonnes per year.

Xiaobaodang No.2 Coal Mine

Xiaobaodang No.2 Coal Mine (小保当二号煤矿) is an underground bituminous coal mine in Dabaodang township, Shenmu, Yulin, Shaanxi, China, operated by Shaanxi Xiaobaodang Mining Company with a 13-million-tonne design capacity.

Xiaobing Fu (付小兵)

Xiaobing Fu (付小兵) is a Chinese wound-repair scientist and Chinese Academy of Engineering academician at the PLA General Hospital, elected a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Xiaobing Ren

Xiaobing Ren (任晓兵) is a Chinese materials scientist known for founding the field of strain glass and for research on shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric ceramics.

Xiaobing Shi

Xiaobing Shi is a molecular biologist and professor of epigenetics at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, known for identifying the YEATS domain as a histone acetylation reader.

Xiaocaiyuan (小菜园)

Xiaocaiyuan (小菜园) is a Chinese mass-market casual-dining chain serving new Anhui cuisine, founded in 2013 in Tongling, Anhui by chef Wang Shugao and listed in Hong Kong in 2024.

Xiaocang Shanfang Shichao

Xiaocang Shanfang Shichao (小仓山房诗集) is the poetry collection of the Qing dynasty poet Yuan Mei, arranged chronologically over fifty-one years of verse, from 1736 to 1786.

Xiaocheng Site

Xiaocheng Site (萧城遗址) is a rammed-earth military city site in Guanxian, Shandong, China, built in 1004 by the Liao army during Empress Dowager Xiao's southern campaign.

Xiaochengqi Tang

小承气汤 (Xiaochengqi Decoction), a mild purgative formula from the Shanghan Lun of rhubarb, magnolia bark, and bitter orange, used for mild yangming fu-excess and modern digestive disorders.

Xiaochun Li

Xiaochun Li is a Chinese-American manufacturing engineer at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026 for nanotechnology-enabled solidification-based manufacturing of high-performance metals.

Xiaodong Chen (materials scientist)

Xiaodong Chen (陈晓东) is a Singapore-based materials scientist and Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University, known for mechano-materials, flexible bioelectronics, and election as a Royal Society Fellow in 2025.

Xiaodong Cheng

Xiaodong Cheng is a structural biologist and professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, known for the 1994 discovery of DNA base flipping, a mechanism used in DNA repair and modification.