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Xuan Yifang

Xuan Yifang (宣以方) is a Taiwanese-born GPU engineer who spent about 30 years in Silicon Valley, led S3 Graphics' Trio chips, and co-founded Shanghai's Lisuan Tech in 2021.

Xuancheng

Xuancheng (宣城市) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui, China, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Known as China's only City of the Four Treasures of the Study, with 12,340 km², about 2.695 million registered residents, and 2025 GDP of 214.86 billion yuan.

Xuande Emperor

Xuande Emperor (Zhu Zhanji, 朱瞻基, temple name Xuanzong, 1399–1435), fifth Ming emperor, reigned 1426–1435; withdrew from Annam in 1427, empowered the Grand Secretariat and eunuchs, cut taxes, and patronized Jingdezhen porcelain and court painting.

Xuandu Canon (Jin Daoist canon)

The Xuandu Canon (玄都宝藏), fully the Da Jin Xuandu baozang, is the Daoist canon compiled under the Jin dynasty, completed in 1192 in 6,455 juan in 602 cases.

Xuanfei Baidu granules

Xuanfei Baidu granules (宣肺败毒颗粒), a 13-herb Chinese patent medicine by Shandong Buchang, NMPA-approved 2 March 2021 for damp-toxin lung epidemic disease; one of the COVID-19 'three medicines and three formulations'.

Xuangao

Xuangao (玄高, 402–444) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who specialized in meditation and the Vinaya, tutored the Northern Wei crown prince, and was executed in 444.

Xuanhe Yishi

Xuanhe Yishi (宣和遺事), also Da Song Xuanhe Yishi, is a Chinese vernacular history-telling text from the Song-Yuan transition covering the Jurchen capture of the Northern Song imperial family.

Xuanhe Zhao

Xuanhe Zhao (赵选贺) is a mechanical engineer at MIT known for work on hydrogels, bioadhesives, soft medical robots, and wearable imaging, and for founding medical-device companies such as SanaHeal.

Xuanhua

Xuanhua (宣化区) is a district of Zhangjiakou in northwestern Hebei Province, China, about 150 km northwest of Beijing. Its well-preserved Ming-era walled old town was a Great Wall garrison known as the Gateway to the Capital.

Xuanhui Yuan

The Xuanhui Yuan (宣徽院) was a Tang dynasty palace agency, staffed by eunuchs, managing inner-court bureaus, palace attendant registers, and provisioning of sacrifices and banquets.

Xuanjian

Xuanjian (宣鉴), better known as Deshan Xuanjian, was a Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist monk (782–865), abbot on Deshan in Hunan, remembered for "Deshan's thirty blows."

Xuanlang

Xuanlang (玄朗, 673–754) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Tiantai school, counted as its eighth patriarch, who lived as a recluse at Zuoxi in Puyang and taught Zhanran, the ninth patriarch.

Xuanmi Pagoda Stele

The Xuanmi Pagoda Stele (玄秘塔碑, Xuanmi Ta Bei) is a Chinese stele erected in Chang'an in 841, with text by chancellor Pei Xiu and calligraphy by Liu Gongquan.

Xuanming Calendar

The Xuanming Calendar (宣明曆) was the official lunisolar calendar of the Tang dynasty, adopted in 822 under Emperor Muzong and used in Japan from 862 until 1685.

Xuanqi Jiangu tablets

Xuanqi Jiangu tablets (玄七健骨片), also called Jingu Le tablets, are a Class 1.1 Chinese patent medicine by Hunan Fangsheng, NMPA-approved November 2021 for mild-to-moderate knee osteoarthritis with tendon-vessel stasis syndrome, 4 tablets three times daily.

Xuansu

Xuansu (玄素, 668–752), also called Masu, was a Tang-dynasty Chan Buddhist monk of the Oxhead school who led its Helin faction and taught the Jingshan master Faqin.

Xuanwan

Xuanwan (玄琬) was a Chinese Buddhist Vinaya master of the Sui and early Tang dynasties who transmitted monastic precepts on a large scale in Chang'an.

Xuanwei power station

Xuanwei power station (国电宣威发电公司) is a coal-fired power station in Xuanwei, Qujing, Yunnan, China, dating from 1958; its six 300 MW units give 1,800 MW, and it went through bankruptcy and reorganization in 2021.

Xuanwen Ge

Xuanwen Ge (宣文阁) was a palace academy of China's Yuan dynasty, created in 1341 by renaming the Kuizhang Ge under Emperor Shundi to manage the classics colloquium.

Xuanwu Circuit

Xuanwu Circuit (宣武军) was a Tang dynasty military governorship seated at Bianzhou, governing four prefectures, whose army repeatedly mutinied against and expelled its commanders in the late 700s.

Xuanwu Gate Incident

The Xuanwu Gate Incident (玄武门之变) was a 626 coup in which Tang prince Li Shimin ambushed and killed his brothers, the crown prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, at Chang'an.

Xuanwu Jiedushi

Xuanwu Jiedushi (宣武军节度使) was a Tang dynasty military governorship over four prefectures in Henan, controlling the Tongji Canal grain route and serving as Zhu Wen's base for usurping the throne.

Xuanxue (Dark Learning)

Xuanxue (玄学), or Dark Learning, was a Chinese philosophical movement of the Wei and Jin eras, also called Neo-Daoism, known for abstruse conversation on the Laozi and Zhuangzi.

Xuanyun

Xuanyun (玄运) is the name of a supposed Chinese Buddhist monk who lived from 429 to 497, but no primary or scholarly source records such a figure.

Xuanzang (玄奘)

Xuanzang, also known as Hsuan Tsang, was a Tang-dynasty Buddhist monk who studied 16 years in India, chiefly at Nalanda, and returned in 645 with 657 Sanskrit texts.

Xuanzang in Kamarupa

Xuanzang in Kamarupa was the 643 CE visit of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang to King Bhaskaravarman's court in present-day Assam, remembered for his eyewitness account of Kamarupa and its ties to Harsha's empire.

Xuanzang's journey through Harsha's India

Xuanzang's journey through Harsha's India was the travels of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang across north India in the seventh century, culminating in his meeting Emperor Harsha and the Kannauj Buddhist assembly.

Xuanzang's sojourn in India

Xuanzang's sojourn in India was the journey of the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang from Chang'an to India between 629 and 645 to acquire authentic Buddhist texts unavailable in China.

Xuanzheng Yuan

The Xuanzheng Yuan (宣政院), the Yuan dynasty's Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs, was founded under Kublai Khan in 1264 and governed Buddhism and Tibet until 1368.

Xuanzhu Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (轩竹生物)

Xuanzhu Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (轩竹生物) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Shijiazhuang and controlled by Sihuan Pharmaceutical, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in October 2025.