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Xiang (place) Xiang was a place in Guangxi province where there was an idol to Gan. Feeling that Gan was an embodiment of immorality and other evils, Hong Xiuquan, Lu Liu and Feng Yunshan destroyed the idol and desecrated the temple to Gan in the 1840s. Xi ...

, the site of Hong Xiuquan's destruction of a Chinese idol early in the Taiping Rebellion *

Xiang (surname) Xiang is the Hanyu pinyin, pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames: Xiàng (; ) and Xiāng (). It means “to go forward” It originated from several sources. First, from Xiang, an ancient state (located in Shandong province), destroyed in t ...

, three unrelated surnames: Chinese: 項 and Chinese: 向 (both ''Xiàng'') and Chinese: 相 (''Xiāng'') *

Xiang Chinese Xiang or Hsiang ( Chinese: 湘; Changsha Xiang: , Mandarin: ), also known as Hunanese, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages, spoken mainly in Hunan province but also in northern Guangxi and parts of n ...

, a group of Chinese varieties spoken in Hunan *Xiang Island (simplified Chinese: 响沙; traditional Chinese: 響沙; pinyin: Xiǎngshā), a former island in the Yangtze estuary now forming part of

Chongming Island Chongming (), Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanized as Chungming, is an alluvial island at the mouth of the Yangtze, Yangtze River in East China covering as of 2010. Together with the islands Changxing Island (Shanghai), Changxing an ...

in Shanghai *

Xiang River The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the second-largest tributary (after the Min River) in terms of surface runoff, the fifth-largest ...

, river in South China *

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

, abbreviated in Chinese as 湘 (''Xiāng''), a province of China *Xiang, capital of the Shang dynasty during the reign of He Dan Jia

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*Half-brother of legendary Chinese leader

Emperor Shun Emperor Shun ( zh, c=帝舜, p=Dì Shùn) was a legendary leader of ancient China, regarded by some sources as one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors being the last of the Five Emperors. Tradition holds that he lived sometime between 229 ...

Xiang of Xia Xiang () is the name of a king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty who is said to have reigned during the 3rd millennium BC. He was the fifth king of the Xia dynasty. Biography Xiang was preceded on the throne of Xia by his father Zhong Kang, and ...

(3rd millennium BC), fifth ruler of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty *

Duke Xiang of Song Duke Xiang of Song (宋襄公) (died 637 BC) was the leader in the state of Song in the Spring and Autumn period. His personal name was Zifu (子茲甫) and he took his throne in 650 BC. After the death of the Hegemon of China, Duke Huan of Qi, ...

(died 637 BC), a ruler of Sòng in the Spring and Autumn period *

Duke Xiang of Jin Duke Xiang of Jin (), personal name Ji Huan, was from 627 to 621 BC the ruler of the Jin state. He succeeded his father, Duke Wen, who was one of the Five Hegemons of China's Spring and Autumn period. Battle of Yao After Duke Wen died in the n ...

(died 621 BC), a ruler of Jin *

King Xiang of Zhou King Xiang of Zhou (died 619BC), personal name Ji Zheng, was a king of the Zhou dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ) was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest span of any dynasty in Chinese histor ...

(died 619 BC), king of the Zhou dynasty *

Liu Xiang (disambiguation) Liu Xiang or Liuxiang may refer to: People *Liu Xiang, Prince of Qi (齊王劉襄; died 179 BC), prince during the Han dynasty *Liu Xiang, Prince of Liang (梁王劉襄; died 97 BC), prince during the Han dynasty *Liu Xiang (scholar) (劉向; 77 B ...

Hsiang

Mina Hsiang Mina Hsiang is an American engineer and product executive. She was the third administrator of the United States Digital Service in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Hsiang was on the original rescue team for Healthcare. ...

(born 1981), administrator of the United States Digital Service *

Solomon Hsiang Solomon M. Hsiang is an American scientist and economist who directs the Global Policy Laboratory and is the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded the Climate Impact Lab and is a National G ...

, scientist and economist *

Wu-Chung Hsiang Wu-Chung Hsiang (; born 12 June 1935) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician, specializing in topology. Hsiang served as chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University from 1982 to 1985 and was one of the most influential Topolog ...

(born 1935), Chinese-American mathematician * (born 1937), Chinese-American mathematician; see

Kepler conjecture The Kepler conjecture, named after the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a mathematical theorem about sphere packing in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It states that no arrangement of equally sized spheres filling s ...

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