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Wuxia (武侠)
Wuxia (武侠), literally "martial chivalry", is the Chinese genre of martial-arts hero fiction and film centered on the xia knight-errant and the jianghu world, spanning Tang tales, Republican novels, Jin Yong, and Shanghai-to-Hong Kong cinema.
Wuyi Lane
Wuyi Lane (乌衣巷, "Lane of Black Robes") is a lane on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, famous from a Tang dynasty poem by Liu Yuxi.
Wycliffe's Bible
Wycliffe's Bible, also called the Wycliffite or Middle English Bible, is the first complete English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate c. 1382-1395 in a literal Early Version and idiomatic Later Version, surviving in about 250 manuscripts.
X-Factor (comics)
X-Factor is the name of several Marvel Comics superhero teams from the X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe, beginning in 1986 with a series that reunited the five original X-Men.
X-Men: From the Ashes
X-Men: From the Ashes is Marvel Comics' 2024 relaunch of the X-Men line after the Krakoa era ended in June 2024. Led by editor Tom Brevoort, it launched X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and Exceptional X-Men, and ended with the 2025 Age of Revelation event.
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills is a 1982 Marvel Graphic Novel (#5) by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson in which the X-Men and Magneto battle televangelist William Stryker and his Purifiers; loose basis for the film X2.
X-Men: Shadows of Tomorrow
X-Men: Shadows of Tomorrow, announced at NYCC 2025, is Marvel Comics' 2026 X-Men publishing banner after Age of Revelation, in which mutants prevent a dystopian future; also the name of Panini France's bimonthly French anthology collecting those series.
X-Treme X-Men
X-Treme X-Men is a Marvel Comics series written by Chris Claremont, running July 2001 to June 2004 for 46 issues, a Storm-led globetrotting X-Men team hunting Destiny's diaries, distinct from the 2012 Greg Pak series and the 2022-2023 Claremont/Larroca revival.
X/Self
X/Self is a 1987 book-length poem by the Barbadian poet and historian Edward Kamau Brathwaite, completing his trilogy begun with Mother Poem (1977) and Sun Poem (1982).
Xanadu (Citizen Kane)
Xanadu is Charles Foster Kane's colossal, unfinished Florida estate in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941), named after Coleridge's Kubla Khan; it opens and closes the film and symbolizes wealth as isolation.
Xanth
Xanth is a long-running series of comic fantasy novels by Piers Anthony, set in a magical Florida-shaped land where every human has a unique talent; it began in 1977.
Xasside
Xasside, also spelled khassaïde or qasida, is the Wolof term for the Islamic religious poems central to the liturgy of Senegal's Sufi orders, above all the Muridiyya.
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
The Xavier Villaurrutia Award (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia de Escritores para Escritores) is an annual Mexican literary prize founded in 1955, rewarding a single published book in poetry, essay, narrative, crónica, or drama.
Xenofiction
Xenofiction presents stories from nonhuman perspectives, exploring how animals or imagined extraterrestrials perceive, communicate, and organize their lives. Its central challenge is making unfamiliar minds intelligible without erasing their differences.
Xhosa iintsomi
Xhosa iintsomi (singular intsomi) are the oral folktales of the Xhosa-speaking people of south-eastern South Africa: improbable stories, performed mainly by women, featuring the trickster uHlakanyana.
Xi Jiang Yue: Night Walk on Huangsha Road
Xi Jiang Yue: Night Walk on Huangsha Road (西江月·夜行黄沙道中) is a ci poem by Xin Qiji describing a summer night walk on a country road near Shangrao, Jiangxi.
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.
Xianqing Ouji
Xianqing Ouji (闲情偶寄) is a 1671 collection of classical essays by the Chinese writer Li Yu, an influential lifestyle guide ranging over theater, food, housing, plants, and health.
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.
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.
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.
Xiayi novels
Xiayi novels (侠义小说, "novels of chivalry and righteousness") are a Qing-dynasty Chinese fiction genre in which knight-errants aid a righteous official in solving crimes, the tradition from which modern martial-arts fiction descends.
XIII (comics)
XIII is a Franco-Belgian thriller comic series created in 1984 by Jean Van Hamme and William Vance for Dargaud, about an amnesiac tattooed man implicated in a US presidential assassination; over 20 million albums sold, with Sente and Jigounov continuing the series and spin-offs XIII Mystery and XIII Trilogy.
Xin Shi
Xin Shi (History of the Heart) is a seven-volume collection of poems and essays attributed to the Song loyalist Zheng Sixiao, its authenticity disputed since the Qing dynasty.
Xingshi Hengyan
Xingshi Hengyan (醒世恒言), translated as Stories to Awaken the World, is a collection of 40 Chinese vernacular huaben stories compiled by Feng Menglong and first printed in 1627.
Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan
Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (醒世姻缘传, "A Tale of Marriage to Awaken the World") is a 100-chapter Chinese novel of the Ming–Qing transition attributed to the pseudonymous Xizhou Sheng.
Xinshu
Xinshu (《新书》, New Book) is a ten-juan collection of political and philosophical essays attributed to the Western Han statesman and writer Jia Yi of Luoyang.
Xkcd
xkcd (xkcd.com) is a stick-figure webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language by Randall Munroe, running since 2005; known for 'Time', 'Duty Calls', What If? books, and CC BY-NC 2.5 licensing.
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.
Y Gododdin
Y Gododdin, medieval Welsh elegies attributed to Aneirin for Gododdin warriors who fell at Catraeth (Catterick) around AD 600; survives in the 13th-century Book of Aneirin, texts A and B.