Chinese Famous Names Starting with Letter X

S a Chinese philosopher, public intellectual and proponent of Chinese liberalism.He is a Research Fe

S a Chinese philosopher, public intellectual and proponent of Chinese liberalism.He is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is an expert on Western social theories including Marxism and the Frankfurt School. He is particularly noted as a historian of the Cultural Revolution.

Is a female Chinese football (soccer) player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Xu plays in t

Is a female Chinese football (soccer) player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Xu plays in the forward position. She was expected to be the next Sun Wen.

Is a Chinese WGM-titled chess player.She used to be the No. 1 ranked girl chess player in the world

Is a Chinese WGM-titled chess player.She used to be the No. 1 ranked girl chess player in the world on the January 2001 Top 20 Girls FIDE rating list.[9] Her highest position on the Top 50 Women FIDE rating list was 25th (also on January 2001).[10]

Is a Chinese chess player and current Women's World Champion. She is also a law graduate.[2]

Is a Chinese chess player and current Women's World Champion. She is also a law graduate.[2]

Is a Chinese football player.He plays for China national football team and was a participant at the

Is a Chinese football player.He plays for China national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Was a Yuan dynasty Chinese poet in sanqu style. His courtesy name was Deke (??). He is said to have

Was a Yuan dynasty Chinese poet in sanqu style. His courtesy name was Deke (??). He is said to have relished sweets, thereby adopting the pen name Tianzhai (??, “Sweets Study”). His son Xu Shanchang also achieved notoriety. The elder Xu was at least a minor figure in officialdom, holding the rank of Circuit Sub official Functionary for Jiaxing in Zhejiang, his home city.

Is a Chinese figure skater. He represented China at the 1980 Winter Olympics, where he placed 16th,

Is a Chinese figure skater. He represented China at the 1980 Winter Olympics, where he placed 16th, and at the 1984 Winter Olympics, where he placed 18th.

Is a member of Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Is a member of Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Was an early 20th century Chinese poet. He was given the name of Zhangxu (??) and the courtesy name

Was an early 20th century Chinese poet. He was given the name of Zhangxu (??) and the courtesy name of Yousen (??). He later changed his courtesy name to Zhimo (??).

Is a Chinese sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he

Is a Chinese sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 500 m event and the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m.

Is an archer from the People's Republic of China.

Is an archer from the People's Republic of China.

Is a judge at the International Court of Justice. On 29 June 2010, she was elected to fill the vacan

Is a judge at the International Court of Justice. On 29 June 2010, she was elected to fill the vacancy created by Shi Jiuyong's resignation on 28 May 2010. She is one of three female judges serving on the ICJ and one of only four women elected as members of the Court to date. Xue is the fifth Chinese judge at the ICJ, and the third representing the People's Republic of China (see Judges of the International Court of Justice). From 1980 to 2003, Xue served in the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, eventually rising to the position of Director-General. She returned to Columbia Law School in 1991 obtaining a J.S.D. degree in 1995. Xue was appointed as the Chinese ambassador to the Netherlands in 2003 and served until 2008. In December 2008, she became the first Chinese ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Is a Chinese ballerina who was cast in the now internationally well-known Red Detachment of Women of

Is a Chinese ballerina who was cast in the now internationally well-known Red Detachment of Women of the National Ballet of China as Wu Qinghua, the heroine of the ballet for which she became a big-time prima ballerina

Is a Chinese javelin thrower.Her personal best throw is 62.93 metres, first achieved in October 2003

Is a Chinese javelin thrower.Her personal best throw is 62.93 metres, first achieved in October 2003 in Changsha. This is the current junior world record.[1] The Chinese record is currently held by Li Lei with 63.69 metres.[2]

Was a Chinese historian and scholar who served under the Song Dynasty, as well as four of the Five D

Was a Chinese historian and scholar who served under the Song Dynasty, as well as four of the Five Dynasties that preceded the Song. Xue is best known for compiling the Five Dynasties History which was put together in the 960s and 970s.

Is a female Chinese volleyball player. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2005 Asian

Is a female Chinese volleyball player. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2005 Asian Championship.

A Chinese swimmer, who will compete for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

A Chinese swimmer, who will compete for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Was one of the three famous female Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty.Some 450 poems by Xue were gat

Was one of the three famous female Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty.Some 450 poems by Xue were gathered in The Brocade River Collection that survived until the 1300s. About 100 poems of her are known nowadays, which is more than of any other Tang dynasty woman.

Is a Chinese basketball player. In 2003 he entered the U.S. National Basketball Association draft wi

Is a Chinese basketball player. In 2003 he entered the U.S. National Basketball Association draft without official permission and the Chinese authorities refused to let him play in the U.S. He was selected 57th overall by the Denver Nuggets, who had acquired the 57th pick from the Dallas Mavericks.

Is a renowned Chinese historian, a director of Ancient History at the Institute of History in Xinjia

Is a renowned Chinese historian, a director of Ancient History at the Institute of History in Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, and a professor of History at the Xinjiang Normal University. Born in Jinan, Shandong, he was graduated in history from the Peking University in 1958, specialized in the fronter policy of ancient China and the history of Central Asia. He published several books in the Chinese language.

Yang began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and started to receive formal instruction when sh

Yang began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and started to receive formal instruction when she was ten, studying under the famous guitarist Chen Zhi, later Chairman of the China Classical Guitar Society. Her public debut came at the First China International Guitar Festival, where she met with immediate acclaim. At the same time, Yang was presented with her first foreign guitar (a "Pepe" children's guitar from Aria), by the celebrated Japanese guitar maker Masaru Kohno. She went on to take second prize at the Beijing Senior Guitar competition, being the only child competitor, aged eleven.

Was a Chinese Confucian philosopher who lived during the Warring States Period and contributed to on

Was a Chinese Confucian philosopher who lived during the Warring States Period and contributed to one of the Hundred Schools of Thought. Xún Zi believed man is innately bad or corrupt, counter to Mencius, and that ethical norms had been invented to rectify mankind.