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Xiang or Hsiang may refer to: * Xiang (place), the site of Hong Xiuquan's destruction of a Chinese idol early in the Taiping Rebellion * Xiang (surname), three unrelated surnames: Chinese: 項 and Chinese: 向 (both ''Xiàng'') and Chinese: 相 (''Xiāng'') * Xiang Chinese, 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 in Shanghai * Xiang River, river in South China * Hunan, abbreviated in Chinese as 湘 (''Xiāng''), a province of China *Xiang, capital of the Shang dynasty during the reign of He Dan Jia


People with the name


Xiang

*Half-brother of legendary Chinese leader
Emperor Shun Emperor Shun () 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 2294 and 2184 BC. Tradition a ...
* Xiang of Xia (3rd millennium BC), fifth ruler of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty * Duke Xiang of Song (died 637 BC), a ruler of Sòng in the Spring and Autumn period * Duke Xiang of Jin (died 621 BC), a ruler of Jin * King Xiang of Zhou (died 619 BC), king of the Zhou dynasty * Liu Xiang (disambiguation)


Hsiang

* Mina Hsiang (born 1981), administrator of the United States Digital Service * Solomon Hsiang, scientist and economist * Wu-Chung Hsiang (born 1935), Chinese-American mathematician * (born 1937), Chinese-American mathematician; see Kepler conjecture


See also

* Xiang Army raised in Hunan by Zeng Guofan during the Qing dynasty * Townships of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (simplified Chinese: 乡; traditional Chinese: 鄉; pinyin: xiāng) {{disambiguation