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Xiaopeng Li

Xiaopeng Li (李霄鹏) is a Chinese supramolecular chemist and mass spectrometrist, a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry since 2023 or 2024, known for 20-nanometer metallo-supramolecular grids and the 2019 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize.

Xiaopeng Zheng

Xiaopeng Zheng (郑晓鹏) is a Chinese materials scientist and assistant professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2023, known for defect passivation in perovskite solar cells.

Oct 22, 2026

Xiaopin wen

Xiaopin wen (小品文, "small-piece prose") is a Chinese literary genre of short, informal artistic essays on everyday subjects, named from a Buddhist term and flourishing in the late Ming and 1930s.

Xiaoping Du

Xiaoping Du is a platelet biologist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for the 1991 discovery of integrin inside-out signaling and a new antithrombotic strategy.

Xiaoqi Sun

Xiaoqi Sun (孙筱琪) is a Chinese chemist and professor at Northeastern University in Shenyang since 2019 who researches rechargeable batteries, especially aqueous zinc batteries, after a PhD at Waterloo.

Xiaoqin Li

Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li is an experimental physicist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for reporting moiré excitons in Nature in 2019 and co-directing the Texas Quantum Institute.

Xiaoqin Wang

Xiaoqin Wang is an American auditory neuroscientist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for developing the common marmoset as a primate model for studying auditory cortex and speech perception.

Sep 20, 2026

Xiaoqing Pan

Xiaoqing Pan (潘晓晴) is a materials scientist and electron microscopist at UC Irvine, known for imaging phonons by electron microscopy and the first observation of polarization vortex arrays.

Xiaoqule (小区乐（格家网络旗下）)

Xiaoqule (小区乐) was a community group-buying platform based in Hangzhou, China, incubated in 2018 by Gejia Network, which raised a US$108 million Series A before withdrawing from Zhengzhou in 2019.

Xiaoqun Wang

Xiaoqun Wang (王晓群) is a Chinese neuroscientist who studies neural stem cells and human brain development, known for Nature atlases of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus and 2024 sensory-neuron organoid work in Cell.

Oct 21, 2026

Xiaor Yaozheng Zhijue

Xiaor Yaozheng Zhijue (小儿药证直诀), also Qianshi Xiaor Yaozheng Zhijue, a 1119 Song pediatric classic compiled by Yan Jizhong from Qian Yi's teachings; three juan, five-zang pattern identification, source of Liuyi Dihuang Wan and Daochi San.

Oct 22, 2026

Xiaoshan Ci

Xiaoshan Ci (小山词), originally titled Yuefu Buwang, is a collection of about 255 short song lyrics by the Northern Song poet Yan Jidao, who died in 1110.

Xiaoshi (secret censors)

Xiaoshi (校事) were secret censors created by Cao Cao in the state of Cao Wei to spy on and denounce officials and commoners, abolished after Cheng Xiao's memorial.

Xiaoshi system of Cao Wei

The xiaoshi system of Cao Wei (曹魏校事制度) was a surveillance institution created by Cao Cao, whose xiaoshi agents spied on officials, soldiers, and commoners until its abolition in 249–253.

Xiaoshouyi (销售易) (Neocrm)

Xiaoshouyi (销售易), internationally branded Neocrm, is a Beijing-based SaaS customer relationship management vendor founded by former SAP China executive Allan Shi, whose backers include Tencent and Sequoia Capital.

Xiaoshuo of Yin Yun

Xiaoshuo of Yin Yun (殷芸小说) is a Liang dynasty collection of anecdotes compiled by Yin Yun on the order of Emperor Wu of Liang, the earliest surviving Chinese work titled xiaoshuo.

Xiaosi Gu

Xiaosi Gu is a neuroscientist in computational psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.

Oct 21, 2026

Xiaosifangshan City Site

小四方山城址 (Xiaosifangshan city site), a Wojü mountain-city site in Muling, Heilongjiang, with a 995 m stone wall and earthen outer city, used from the Warring States period through Bohai, Liao, and Jin; national key protection unit since 2006.

Xiaosong Li

Xiaosong Li is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Washington, known for real-time time-dependent electronic structure methods, and elected a 2025 AAAS Fellow.

Xiaotian Quan (哮天犬)

Xiaotian Quan (哮天犬), the Howling Celestial Dog, is the divine beast and magical weapon of the Chinese god Erlang Shen, first named in the novel Investiture of the Gods.

Sep 19, 2026

Xiaotiancai

Xiaotiancai (小天才), also sold abroad as Imoo, is a Dongguan-based children's-electronics company founded in 2010 that makes phone watches, tablets, and early-learning machines, sold as Imoo abroad.

Xiaowan Dam

The Xiaowan Dam (小湾坝), also called the Xiaowan Hydropower Station, is a 294.5 m double-curvature arch dam on the Lancang River in Yunnan, China, with a 4,200 MW power station.

Oct 15, 2026

Xiaowan hydroelectric plant

The Xiaowan hydroelectric plant (小湾电站) is a 4,200 MW hydroelectric plant on the upper Mekong in Yunnan, China, with a 294.5 m arch dam completed in 2010.

Sep 20, 2026

Xiaowei Zhuang

Xiaowei Zhuang is a Chinese-born biophysicist and Harvard professor who invented STORM super-resolution microscopy and MERFISH single-cell imaging, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003.

Sep 25, 2026

Xiaowu–Gao Huan rupture and flight west

The Xiaowu–Gao Huan rupture (孝武帝与高欢决裂) was the 534 breakdown between Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei and the power holder Gao Huan, ending with the emperor's flight from Luoyang west to Yuwen Tai.

Xiaoxin Zhou

Xiaoxin Zhou, also known as Zhou Xiaoxin, is a Chinese power-systems engineer who led development of China's PSASP grid analysis software and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Xiaoxu Zhao

Xiaoxu Zhao is a materials scientist and assistant professor at Peking University since 2022, known for atomic-resolution electron microscopy of low-dimensional materials, single-atom catalysis, and a 2020 Nature paper on self-intercalation.