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| 16 | ->''"Stop shooting! I'm not a zombie! I'm a jiang shi! I don't even eat people OR their brains!"'' |
| 17 | -->-- '''[[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Hsien-Ko]]''''s win quote to [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Chris Redfield]] in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' |
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| 19 | The monster called a 'Chinese Vampire' (Simplified: 僵尸; Traditional: 殭屍; Pinyin: ''Jiāngshī'') has also been translated as a ''hopping corpse'' or ''hopping vampire'', among other names. The Mandarin name is romanized as ''jiangshi'', [[UsefulNotes/WhyMaoChangedHisName usually]], which means "stiff corpse". Despite the name, they are much closer in nature to the Western concepts of [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghouls]] or [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]] than to [[VampiresAreSexGods any]] common [[ClassicalMovieVampire depiction]] of [[VampiresAreRich vampires]]. |
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| 21 | A typical Chinese Vampire [[LifeDrinker drains life energy]] though some ''jiangshi'' drain blood while they're at it due to cross-cultural influence. Behaviour-wise, however, the Chinese Vampire is [[FeralVampires bestial in its monstrosity]]; it cannot speak, has pale skin, long claw-like fingernails, and a [[OverlyLongTongue long prehensile tongue]]. In what would probably be a particularly huge display of the UncannyValley, it [[ZombieGait moves by hopping and always has its arms outstretched in rigor mortis]]. Often a bit on the decayed side, they typically wear shabby robes of the kind worn by the nobility in times gone by -- nowadays, Qing Dynasty-style robes are the thing. The modern visual depiction of the Jiangshi as a horrific Qing official may have been derived by the anti-Manchu or anti-Qing sentiments of the Han Chinese population during the Qing Dynasty, as the officials were viewed as bloodthirsty creatures with little regard for humanity. Jiangshi were popularized during the jiangshi boom of the Hong Kong film industry, which was partially a response to the preceding wave of western vampire fiction. ''Film/MrVampire'' is the most influential film from this era and is TropeCodifier for jiangshi portrayals. |
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| 23 | In some versions, it detects potential victims by the energy fluctuations caused by their breathing -- one can hide, for a while, from one by holding one's breath. Some of these stories purport that if one manages to suck the creature's dying (and still held) breath out of it, it will fall inanimate and become an ordinary corpse. Folklore may also suggest escaping it by strewing many small objects, such as rice, in its path, which it [[BeatItByCompulsion would feel compelled to count]]. It may be controlled with a [[PaperTalisman parchment inscribed with runes]] placed on its head. |
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| 25 | A person drained of LifeEnergy will become another of its kind. |
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| 27 | Typical weaknesses of a jiangshi include the blood of a black dog, a wooden sword made from a peach tree, a hen's egg, glutinous rice (by extension of its use in the attempt to draw poisons from a living body), and the urine of a virgin boy. In case you were wondering, the classic KillItWithFire is implied by the text of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zi_Bu_Yu Zi Bu Yu]]'' to work as well. It's been suggested that due to the jiangshi's lack of advanced motor function, one could pull off FlippingHelpless on it if it was knocked onto its back. |
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| 29 | The myth is an out-growth of an earlier legend to the effect that a person who died far from home could be brought back home for burial, which was greatly preferable, by a Daoist magician or priest's affixing a parchment with an effective prescription to its forehead and leading it home, often with the accompaniment of a drum to tell it when to hop. Some expanded this into entire of squads of hopping corpses led across the countryside, it being cheaper that way... though more prone to one's getting lost, or undetectedly exceeding the limits of its animating spell and going rogue. |
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| 31 | SubTrope of OurVampiresAreDifferent. Compare ClassicalMovieVampire and OurZombiesAreDifferent, LooksLikeOrlok. Settings with a VampireVarietyPack will often at least mention that these exist. JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith a western-style vampire who is ethnically Chinese. |
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| 33 | Incidentally, in Chinese, the word ''jiāngshī'' is also applied to the Anglo zombies (alongside 丧尸/喪屍, ''sàngshī'' which exclusively means zombies), while Slavic vampires use another term entirely 吸血鬼 (''xīxuèguǐ'', literally "blood-sucking ghost"). A Chinese person would find ''jiangshi'' to be closer to zombies than vampires. |
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| 35 | Not to be confused with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Shi the actual Chinese poet Jiang Shi.]] |
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| 38 | !!Examples: |
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| 40 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 43 | * ''Animation/{{Spookiz}}'': Kong Kong is a jiangshi who often teams up with the vampire Cula. Kong Kong regularly moves around by hopping, but isn't bound by stiff movement. His talisman enables and forces him to take on the attributes of whatever drawing is placed on it. |
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| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 47 | * ''Manga/DropkickOnMyDevil'': Kyon-Kyon and her older sister Ran-Ran are jiangshi, though the latter was [[ForcedTransformation turned into a panda]]. |
| 48 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 49 | ** Chiaotzu is based on a jiang-shi, wearing a Qing Dynasty outfit, having extremely pale skin, and uses telekinetic powers by stretching his arms out. |
| 50 | ** Android 19 also shares many similarities to them, namely his pale white skin and [[EnergyAbsorption his absorption of fighters' ki to power himself]] via stretching his arms out in front of an attack. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'': Zel ends up sleeping with a jiangshi when the reviewers (sans Crim) visit the undead brothel Necrowife. He gives her a six out of ten. |
| 52 | * ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Jiang-shi are a sub-species to zombies, primarily found in Asian countries like China and Taiwan. They tend to suffer from rigor-mortis almost daily, especially after sleep, locking up their elbows and knees, forcing them to practice tai chi every day to open up their joints. Chapter 39 introduced the first named jiang-shi in the form of Shiishii. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/{{Nanbaka}}'' 's Upa dresses like one. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': Ling-Ling is a Chinese jiangshi, who can freely [[LosingYourHead dismember and reassemble herself]]. She commands an army of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]], though it's seen that her "friends" have some degree of independence. She's also capable of using the [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Jigen-Tou]], though she's the least skilled of its three users. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/ShamanKing'': The corpse servants of the Chinese Tao family of shamans are jiangshi. The family tends to kill people with strong bodies to fill out their army of corpses. Lee Pai-Long, Jun's personal servant, has the full outfit and everything, but is much less stiff, seeing as he's a BruceLeeClone. |
| 56 | * ''Anime/TurnAGundam'': Merrybell Gadget is an eccentic Moonrace engineer who dresses and acts like a jiang-shi: Her spacesuit has long sleeves, most of her face is covered in stark-white makeup, and she tends to hop around and stick her arms out. |
| 57 | * In one episode of ''Anime/WanWanCelebSoreyukeTetsunoshin'', Chin dresses up as a jiang shi as part of a horror attraction held in a cemetery. While Tetsunoshin has no idea what a jiang shi is, Victoria both knows and [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes is afraid enough of them]] that she ''punts'' Chin clear off-screen purely out of fear. |
| 58 | * Rin Azuma from ''Manga/YozakuraQuartet'' is one, though she [[CuteMonsterGirl doesn't quite look the part]]. In fact, her only vampiric traits seem to be her need to keep a talisman on her person [[spoiler:and her vulnerability to a {{Necromancer}}'s mind-control.]] Also [[SphereOfDestruction matter-destroying forcefields]] in the anime. |
| 59 | * The CMX manga ''[[http://www.dccomics.com/cmx/?action=on_sale&i=8565 Zombie Fairy]]'' features one of these in the title role. |
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| 62 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 63 | * "Barfly!" (''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' #33): While in Hong Kong for business, the American Ludlow Guthrie meets and marries Ch'ing Shih. Ch'ing Shih is a ch'ing shih and she is after Guthrie's share in a company he runs with Phillip Vandamm, legal access to the USA, Guthrie's blood while she's at it, and later she also sets her romantic sight on Phillip. The men do get a warning before Ch'ing Shih's trap closes but they dismiss it: at a party, the monster movie actor Fortesque Bromide notices Ch'ing Shih's peculiar name and in jest draws a circle around her with rice kernels. However, Ch'ing Shih, being the actual creature, responds to it as if she's being suffocated, which Bromide assumes is psychosomatic. Ch'ing Shih and Guthrie leave thereafter and Ch'ing Shih drains her husband for the last time, after which she drugs him into a heart attack to prevent him from becoming a ch'ing shih too. Then she goes after Phillip and turns him, teaching him that as a ch'ing shih he is immortal, can mentally travel the earth through moonlight, and change shape into a bat-dog hybrid. He rejects her at first, but after two months of subsiding on animal blood with no way out but suicide, he returns to be with her. |
| 64 | * One ''ComicBook/IronFist'' series featured Chinese vampire ''bats'' who were dressed like traditional jiangshi. |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/TopTen'': Jiangshi are the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]]-analogue rivals of TheMafia-analogue European vampire mobsters. |
| 66 | * In the first issue of ''ComicBook/SpiritWorld2023'', Cassandra Cain battles jiangshi after getting stuck in the SpiritWorld. |
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| 69 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 70 | * One of the blonde heroine's costume changes in ''Film/AsianDynamite'' is one of these. |
| 71 | * ''Film/CrazySafari'': The corpse of a Chinese vampire is bought from an auction and flown with a plane to China in order to give it a proper burial. The plane crashes and a group of tribesmen (Bushmen) come across the vampire, and use it to get fruit out of a tree, by having it hop into it repeatedly. Yeah. |
| 72 | * In ''Film/FantasyMissionForce'', one of the many random oddities encountered by the eponymous force while spending a night in a haunted house is a bunch of hopping ''jiangshi''s. |
| 73 | * The Taiwanese ''Jiāngshī Xiǎozi'' (Jiangshi kid) / ''Hello Dracula'' / ''Kyonshies'' series is probably the most successful ''jiangshi'' film series after Mr. Vampire, notable for its KidHero protagonists, recurring [[CuteMonster undead child]] characters and more family-friendly tone than its rival series. It had four sequels, a TV show [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff specifically made for Japan]] and a DirectToVideo spin-off series [[CutShort that only made it to the first entry]]. |
| 74 | * ''Film/TheJitters'': A jiangshi gets loose in America. |
| 75 | * ''Film/KidFromKwangtung'' has a scene where the titular kid and a bunch of his friends snuck into a funeral parlour in order to steal from a coffin, by dressing themselves as ''jiangshi''s. Much to their horror, in the middle of their theft a group of '''real''' ''jiangshi'' suddenly enters... |
| 76 | * The various characters of ''Film/KungFuWonderChild'' includes a ''jiangshi'' and his two kids, who travels everywhere by hopping with their arms outstretched. Oddly enough, they can appear in broad daylight, with the two ''jiangshi'' kids tagging behind Creator/YukariOshima's heroine. |
| 77 | * ''Film/TheLegendOfThe7GoldenVampires'': (1974) is a co-production with Film/{{Hammer Horror}}, and features Western ''and'' Chinese vampires in the same film. It has been released cut with various titles such as ''Seven Brothers Meet Dracula''. |
| 78 | %%* ''Film/MrVampire'': |
| 79 | * ''Film/OurFriendPower5'': Dalgeun at one point dresses up as a jiangshi, complete with painting his face a pale purple and wearing a long, colorful robe, all in an effort to scare Mina. When he moves, he even hops around with his arms outstretched. Then, when the turtles see him hopping around, they also transform into jiangshi, thinking that's just how humans are supposed to look... |
| 80 | %%* ''Film/RigorMortis'': |
| 81 | %%* ''Film/RoboVampire'': |
| 82 | * ''Film/TheShadowBoxing'': A novice sorcerer working at a funeral parlour transfers bodies from morgues to graveyards by converting them to jiangshi first. A botched spell results in the jiangshi getting loose. |
| 83 | %%* ''Film/{{Shaolin vs Evil Dead}}'': |
| 84 | * ''Film/SwiftShaolinBoxer'': A cadre of kung fu fighting jiangshi shows up in one scene and quickly disappears, although they're later revealed to be a group of rogue martial artists posing as the undead. |
| 85 | * ''Film/UltramanGingaSTheMovieShowdownThe10UltraBrothers'': Arisa gets assaulted by a horde of jiangshi when she attempts to infiltrate Etelgar's fortress. The fortress feeds on her fears and apparently jiangshi are what scares her the most. |
| 86 | %%* ''Vampire Cleanup Department'': |
| 87 | * ''Film/VampireVsVampire'': The jiangshi is a child and friendly (it is shown [[VegetarianVampire sucking a tomato dry rather than drinking blood or lifeforce]]). The Western vampire is dug out of the ground but associated with an old church. |
| 88 | * ''Zombi 56: Hopping Mad to the Sound of Music'': The jiangshi can be subdued by music, at which point it goes from hopping to [[InvoluntaryDance dancing uncontrollably]]. |
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| 91 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 92 | * ''Literature/AnnoDracula'': A hopping corpse is sent to first threaten and then attack Geneviève Dieudonné. |
| 93 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Quite possibly the basis of the Asia-based Jade Vampire Court. |
| 94 | * The lurching, strangling, and soul-stealing variety appears in ''[[Literature/BridgeOfBirds The Story of the Stone]]''. When its hand is cut off, it continues to strangle our hero, until Ox dumps the lamp over his head and the lamp oil loosens the thing's grip enough to pry it off. Then the dismembered body '''keeps moving...''' Fortunately for all concerned, once the monster's grip was broken, it lost its power to steal souls. When the fires finally died out, there was nothing getting up again. Too bad the mastermind using said vampire to do his dirty work was still alive... Hugart would later use one again, a great deal less climactically, to start off the plot of his third book. |
| 95 | * In S.A. Sidor's ''Fury From The Tomb'', Yong Wu's parents had been railroad workers until a jiangshi killed them in their tent one night. Though blind, mute, and ghastly to behold, they retain enough of their human emotions to look out for their son's welfare, following Yong Wu and his companions on their journey through the desert, feeding on coyotes and other wildlife when they're not discreetly helping out against ghoul banditos and a stolen mummy's curse. |
| 96 | * ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'': The really tall thresholds at the entrances and exits of ancient Chinese coffin homes is meant to prevent them from getting out. See, when the corpse is animated by natural energy, the body is still undergoing ''rigor mortis'', so it can only hop, and it becomes difficult to hop over the threshold. So it hops, it trips, and it falls and stays on the ground until daybreak, where it could be discovered. |
| 97 | * The ''Literature/MediochreQSethSeries'' sees them used as {{Mooks}} by the BigBad of ''[[ChristmasEpisode Born to Raise the Sons of Earth]]''. |
| 98 | * ''Literature/StrangeStoriesFromAChineseStudio'': In "The Blood-Drinking Corpse", a woman's corpse reviving in an inn and going on a killing spree, before chasing one of her would-be victims to a garden. Missing a slash with her FemmeFatalons, she ends up being LeftStuckAfterAttack as she embeds her claws into a tree. She is discovered the next morning, having reverted back to a corpse with her fingers still in the bark. |
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| 101 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 102 | * ''Series/{{Blood Ties|2007}}'': Jiangshi are mentioned by Coreen in reference to "Illuminacion del sol," a sun-shaped weapon that paralyzes a vampire when stuck in his or her chest. Despite the Spanish name, possibly given by its previous owner [[VampireHunter Monsignor Javier Mendoza]], it was actually created at the request of a Chinese emperor to battle jiangshi. Given that the weapon works on a Western vampire, it can be assumed that these jiangshi are the same, although the number of supernatural beings in existence in this verse could indicate otherwise. |
| 103 | %%* ''Series/ChinesePaladin 3'': referred to as zombies. |
| 104 | * In ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'', a MonsterOfTheWeek transformed the departed souls lingering on Academia Island into Jiangshi in order to have a private army. |
| 105 | * ''Series/ForeverKnight'': Nick Knight is captured by a Chinese acupuncturist who (incorrectly) believes he killed his mother years before. He identifies Nick as a jiangshi. |
| 106 | * ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'': The mook enemies known as the rinshi are based on the jiangshi, though they [[EmotionEater feed off fear]] instead of life energy. That and jumping headfirst into cars and making them explode. A rinshi that passes through the Chamber of Trials is worthy of becoming a MonsterOfTheWeek. DarkActionGirl main character Mele is a ''really'' strong one. |
| 107 | ** Aside from parsing the name as two words rather than one, no significant changes seem to be made to the Rin Shi in ''Gekiranger'''s adaptation, ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''. |
| 108 | * ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': In "The Orgy", one of the guests at the Bi-Annual Vampire Orgy that the main characters are hosting is a Chinese hopping vampire. Nadja greets him personally and even refers to him as a jiangshi. |
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| 111 | [[folder:Manhua]] |
| 112 | * ''Manhua/BloodlineTheLastRoyalVampire'': Is a much nicer form of this trope... in a sense. It's played straight with [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Chong Yin and Ye Ren]] in the prequels. |
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| 115 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 116 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcpzqZrpLVM RTRT]] by Music/{{Mili}} is about a girl befriending one of these by offering him normal human food. The two get along great, at least until [[spoiler: he gets shot.]] |
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| 119 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 120 | * One episode of ''Podcast/ResidentsOfProserpinaPark'' has Terry challenge Alina and her friends to stay in the park overnight. Terry provides them with some jiangshi for protection against the more dangerous residents of the park. |
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| 123 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 124 | * ''TabletopGame/AllFleshMustBeEaten'' is mostly geared toward [[SurvivalHorror survival horror]] and monsters [[ZombieApocalypse in the Romero tradition]], but the ''Atlas of the Walking Dead'' supplement features information and stats for various monsters from around the world, including "gyonshi" [[UsefulNotes/WhyMaoChangedHisName (alternate romanization)]]. The Gyonshi here is depicted as a blue-gray, visually corpse-like undead created when bad Feng Shui leads to improper chi flows through a graveyard or when Taoist rituals are invoked to deliberately raise the dead. Largely paralyzed from the waist down, they move only through hopping, and they're blind, hunting through a combination of hearing and the ability to smell the breath of the living. They are inhumanly strong and resistant to pain, and wield claw-like fingers. Their claw (and their bite or tongue, if they have such) carries a dark curse which afflicts a living person with an uncontrollable hunger for blood, turning them into a kind of "living vampire". They are repulsed or even damaged by string soaked in chicken blood and sticky rice, can be subdued and controlled by Taoist paper charms, and slain by using fire or a sword made of peach wood that has been blessed through Taoist ritual. Variable attributes include being smarter than the usual mindless hopping corpse, [[InASingleBound being able to hop impossibly high distances]] or even {{levitate}} and get around by hovering (usually a result of the gyonshi having been a Taoist priest or sorcerer in life), having fangs, using a barbed tongue to suck blood, and only being able to move in straight lines, forcing them to stop and reorient themselves if they want to change direction. |
| 125 | * The ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' faction known as the Maze Rats, which were a gang of mostly Chinese pirates, had one of these, with the instructions to "remove the paper from its forehead and stand back" in case of emergencies. |
| 126 | %%* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Hungry ghosts |
| 127 | * ''TabletopGame/FengShui'': Jiangshi are among the many monsters used by the Eaters of the Lotus. The Architects of the Flesh also use them, modifying them with Arcanowave technology to become Bouncing Benjys. |
| 128 | %%* ''TabletopGame/GraveRobbersFromOuterSpace'': Appear as enemies in the Asian film expansion as "Hopping Vampires". |
| 129 | * ''TabletopGame/KindredOfTheEast'', a supplement in the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''. Calling themselves the ''Kuei-Jin'', they are spirits of the dead who fought their way back from one of the 1001 hells and back into their bodies, which they reanimate and keep alive by feeding on the chi of other people. In the setting's present day, they're usually involved in turf wars with western vampires. Only people of Asian descent can become Kuei-Jin. Primarily [[PlotHole another example]] of the setting's many conflicting religions which are [[FantasyKitchenSink all somehow true and mutually exclusive from one another]]. |
| 130 | ** And a book for the new line, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', features the jiangshi, ghosts bound to their bodies and graves who seek out the life of the living. It's part of a whole book on things in the setting that are vampiric without being, well, vampires. |
| 131 | * ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': Ghostrick Jiangshi is part of a monster rally and can search out his comrades very easily. |
| 132 | ** A straighter example is [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Kyonshee Master Kyonshee,]] a Normal Zombie-Type Monster. Unlike Ghostrick Jiangshi, Master Kyonshee isn't shown hopping, but instead appears as the revived body of an OldMaster of some kind, put to evil use--the paper over his face reads "Cursed." |
| 133 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has dabbled with the trope before via its ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, which is home to the game's [[OurVampiresAreDifferent widest variety of vampires]]. |
| 134 | ** The earliest iteration of the Chinese Vampire was the '''Oriental Vampire''' in 2nd edition. This is more a weird blend of the standard (Western) Vampire and the BakenekoAndNekomata, with a sprinkling of Jiangshi. This vampire looks largely like its living self, save a feral cast to its features, slightly luminescent skin, and that its nails grow into massive claws, which it tends to favor over weaponry. They can't turn into mist, but can turn invisible and walk through walls. Their gaze paralyses a victim with a mesmeric effect rather than charming them. They can summon insect swarms and great cats to their aid, and transform into tigers. They are repulsed by mirrors, holy symbols, garlands of rosemary & ivy, and the scent of incense of rosemary and myrrh. They lack the ability of the "western" vampire to climb walls like a spider, but can instead levitate at will, and retain their cousin's lack of a reflection or shadow and their ability to move in complete silence. Nonmagical weapons that strike these vampires do no damage and are destroyed. They must rest in at least a cubic foot of soil from their original burial place at night; if exposed to sunlight, or prevented from sleeping in this grave-soil for nine days in a row, they are destroyed. Staking them through the heart with bamboo renders them inert; killing them requires placing blessed rosemary in the vampire's mouth and then sewing its mouth and eyes shut with golden thread using a silver needle. These vampires are largely associated with the ''Japanese''-based domain of Rokushima Taiyoo and the ''India''-based domain of Sri Raji, in large part due to the setting's only China-based domain, I'Cath, being an uninhabited wasteland. |
| 135 | ** In the 3rd edition reboot, the aforementioned "Oriental Vampire" was renamed the '''Chiang-Shi''', but otherwise remained identical. |
| 136 | ** In the 5th edition reboot, the '''Jiangshi''' finally debuted under its accepted name. Described as a soul trapped within its own corpse, animated by its bitterness, the jiangshi is all but paralyzed by rigor mortis, causing them to hop along with their arms outstretched. They feed on the life energy of others, which sustains them and temporarily limbers up their bodies, which grants them the ability to fly via levitation at an impressive pace. They can freely shapechange into people, animals, and other undead creatures, and are repulsed by mirrors and holy symbols. They are ''finally'' associated with I'Cath, which in this iteration of the setting is an actual populated domain. |
| 137 | ** Adjacent to the Chiang-shi and Jiangshi is the '''Kizoku''', a monster from Rokushima Taiyoo that combines elements of the standard vampire and the incubus; though its modus operandi combines elements of both, it's not an undead creature. Appearing as handsome Japanese or Chinese men with a small mole in the shape of a black crescent moon somewhere on their body (typically a hand or face), the Kizoku seduce women into committing acts of evil, usually murdering their husband or betrothed, before sucking out their souls. There are some key differences between the 2nd and 3rd edition versions of the monster. In 2nd edition, a Kizoku merely devours the women he corrupts, and can only be slain permanently by staking him the heart with a stake made from weeping willow wood. In 3rd edition, the women whose lives are drained by the Kizoku are transformed into weeping willows. They can be restored by Wish or Miracle spells, but if someone who truly loved a Kizoku's victim finds her tree and sacrifices her by cutting it down and fashioning a weapon from its heartwood, that victim can permanently slay the Kizoku, which will instantly restore all of the Kizoku's other victims to life. The woman whose heartwood was used can only be restored with a Wish or Miracle spell. |
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| 140 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 141 | * Toys/LivingDeadDolls Series 27, a "monsters of the world" collection, includes the Hopping Vampire, who comes with a velcro spell tag which can attach to its head. |
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| 144 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 145 | * ''VideoGame/AbyssCrossing'': |
| 146 | ** The Black Wastelands has a Jiangshi enemy that is weak to light like most other undead. |
| 147 | ** The Dark Astra Mona created an undead clone of his sister Reina. Said clone wears a hat that looks similar to the Jiangshis' mandarin hats, as well as a Chinese-style outfit. |
| 148 | * The Tale of the Dragon expansion for ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' allows chinese players who worship Zhong Kui in the Heroic Age to train Jiangshi at their temple. They are fairly strong myth units with a special attack that drains life from enemy soldiers and restores their own. |
| 149 | * These are recurring enemies in ''[[VideoGame/AlexKidd Alex Kidd and the Enchanted Castle]]''. |
| 150 | * ''VideoGame/TheBattleCats'' features Jiangshi Cat as the final form of the Pogo Cat family. [[NightmareRetardant Its mystic seal is just last month's gas bill.]] True to its undead nature, it gains a LastChanceHitPoint that lets it come back from an otherwise-fatal attack. |
| 151 | * ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'': An optional boss is a jiangshi. It's the only boss to ''not'' be permanently destroyed; it is frozen by a talisman upon defeat, and if you attack it again, the talisman will break, causing it to revive and attack you, once more. |
| 152 | * ''Chaos Seed'': Kyonshi are the very first enemies thrown at the protagonist when he enters the training grounds. |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': Hsien-ko (International) / Lei-Lei (Japan) is a jiangshi; her sister's soul resides in the talisman on her forehead to protect Lei-Lei from losing control of her powers. A special move allows the two sisters to separate momentarily and let Lei Lei enter a kind of reckless state. This is lampshaded in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', where Lei-Lei has to remind [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Chris and Jill]] that she's completely different from [[OurZombiesAreDifferent the other type of undead]] they're used to dealing with. |
| 154 | * ''VideoGame/DemonsWorld'': Jiangshi appear in the China stage. They come at the protagonist riding on bicycles. |
| 155 | * ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'': Jiangshi appear as enemies in only one level. Coincidentally, the same level has undead versions of many previous foes. |
| 156 | * Jiangshi appear as part of ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawlStoneSoup'''s lineup of undead enemies and are described as being "bound into servitude by esoteric rituals." They're [[LightningBruiser much faster than they appear]], and their long claws can drain the player's HP, healing the jiangshi. Negative energy resistance reduces the effectiveness of the latter, and if the player can't actually bleed (e.g. player is in Stone Form, is also undead), [[DevelopersForesight then their attacks won't heal them]]. In terms of art direction, they very much go for EyeObscuringHat, to the point of looking like TheFaceless. They appear in the undead-themed Crypt level and can be summoned by any monster with the Summon Undead spell. Since the game's lineup of ClassicalMovieVampire-inspired enemies also have this spell, that means you might be attacked by two vampire types at once! |
| 157 | * The fifth ''VideoGame/EndlessNightmare'', ''Curse'', has ''jiangshi''s as enemies, including a ''jiangshi'' boss. Oddly enough they're simply called "zombies" (considering there are already generic zombies in the same game). |
| 158 | * ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce EXTRAPOWER Attack of Darkforce]]'': Master Wu's usual method of attack is to raise an army of Jiangshi. |
| 159 | * The final game of the NES ''VideoGame/FamilyTrainer'' series was "Baby Kyonshi's Ladder Adventure". A game played using the powerpad in which a child jiangshi attempted to find his parents. The game, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests]], uses a random ladder based system to determine what areas you enter. Aside from the KidHero, the game also features evil jiangshi as enemies. |
| 160 | * A few of these appear in The Temple of Xi'an in ''VideoGame/FearEffect2RetroHelix''. They are invincible and can paralyze you if they hit you. |
| 161 | * ''VideoGame/{{Ghostlore}}'' has ''jiangshi'' enemies in a few stages, where they pursue you while hopping with outstretched arms. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/{{Hachoo}}'' have chubby ''jiangshi'' enemies you can beat up during gameplay. |
| 163 | * ''[[VideoGame/HiryuNoKen Flying Warriors]]'' had jiangshi as enemies in the Chinatown level, with a giant jiangshi subboss at its end. |
| 164 | * ''Website/GaiaOnline'' has a "Gung Xi" set, for [[http://www.tektek.org/avatar/36354841 males]] and [[http://www.tektek.org/avatar/36354945 females.]] The shoes are described as "Special shoes built for hopping." and all the other items make references to being for dead Chinese people; it's pretty likely they're a direct reference to the Ragnarok Online [=NPCs=]. |
| 165 | ** The female set in the link has the [[ShoutOut same color scheme]] as [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} LeiLei/Hsien-Ko]]. |
| 166 | * ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': [[AnIcePerson Qiqi]] is described as a zombie but is based on this trope. She's significantly more "fresh"-looking than most examples of this trope; if not for the PaperTalisman on her forehead, one could easily mistake her for a living person at first glance. Being undead has also made her immortal, but she's generally unable to act without being given orders, [[UndeadChild cannot age past her childlike appearance]], and cannot make new memories, causing her to forget everything that happens to her unless she writes things down in a notebook. She also has an exercise regimen required to keep her undead muscles limber. |
| 167 | * Hades (''Yīnyáng pànguān'' / ''Yin-yang Judge'' in China), from the Chinese fighting game ''VideoGame/TheKillingBlade'', is an unusual example because he merges the standard film's hero and villain roles into one, as a mysterious and vengeful Taoist priest that looks and behaves as a ''jiangshi''. |
| 168 | * From ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', we have the Nightwalker Heartless, which is exclusive to The Land of Dragons, WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'s homeworld. [[spoiler: Some of them happen to be Shang's army, who succumbed to fatigue after marching to the city from the mountains. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse It's unknown if they were revived upon defeat]], though given Organization XIII's desire to collect hearts, [[KilledOffForReal it's unlikely]]]]. |
| 169 | * Star Wars-based videogame ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' featured Rakhgouls, a kind of low-level monster which were quite close to the real deal. |
| 170 | * ''VideoGame/KungFuChaos'' has a few of these as enemies. They spin like a top when touched, shredding players to gory pieces. |
| 171 | * The UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem game ''VideoGame/KungFuKid'' has kyonshi as enemies on nearly every level. |
| 172 | * The Simple 2000 title ''VideoGame/TheKyonshiPanic'', aka ''Zombie Attack'', involves rescuing survivors from a building infested with Jiang Shi. |
| 173 | * In the levels Ruins and Dungeon of ''VideoGame/LegendOfHeroTonma'', jiangshi spring from coffins. They wear hats that looks more like pirate ones than the usual Qing ones. The hat completely obscure their faces, except for their GlowingEyesOfDoom. |
| 174 | * ''VideoGame/LeifengPagoda'', set in the titular location (a heavily-fictionalized version of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leifeng_Pagoda real-life location in Hangzhou]]), has ''jiangshi''s as recurring enemies, depicted in traditional forms as pale-skinned, zombie-like creatures with talismans pasted on their faces and chases after you by hopping. Incidentally, they're clad in the black traditional Manchurian-era robes, despite the events of the game taking place [[AnachronismStew three centuries before the Qing Dynasty]]. |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/MartialChampion'': A jiangshi named Titi (Chaos in Japan) becomes an expy of Film/EdwardScissorhands. For some reason, he's equipped with WolverineClaws, which is kind of strange since only half of the cast wields weapons and jiangshi tend to use their own nails as weapons. The game's engine lets him equip other characters' weapons such as nunchucks or [[SinisterScimitar scimitars]], though. |
| 176 | * ''VideoGame/MetalSlugAttack'': Li Lin is a jiangshi who's part of the undead faction. |
| 177 | * ''VideoGame/LaMulana'': Jiangshi are minor enemies in the Endless Corridor. |
| 178 | * ''Legend of Hero Tonma'': Jiangshi are fought in both the Ruins and the Dungeon. They emerge from Christian coffins dressed in blue robes and blue hats that obscure everything except their red eyes, white hands, and white feet. Naturally, they come at Tonma by hopping. |
| 179 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSilkroad'': Jiangshi are recurring enemies. Their outstretched hands are capable of electrocution if they manage to grab their victim. |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/NinjaMastersHaoNinpoCho'': Tenhou is blatantly based on Lam Ching-ying's stock Taoist ''jiangshi'' hunter of the 80s-90s films, down to the paper seals, wooden sword and ''bagua'' mirror. |
| 181 | * A family of them appear in ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'', but unlike most examples, they do have intelligence, are capable of speech and are one of the ''good'' characters. Oh, and they don't [[LifeDrain suck life]] either, that honor goes to a number of other characters including a ''Western-style vampire''. |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': One of the Chinese Mei's Halloween skins is a jiangshi costume. |
| 183 | * ''VideoGame/PaperDolls'': A jiangshi overlord is one of the bosses, dressed in typical Manchurian robes with a horribly deformed face when you fight it from up close. |
| 184 | * ''VideoGame/PhantomFighter'': A traveling monk goes around fighting kyonshi. With a special item, a child kyonshi also is playable, as ''Phantom Fighter'' was originally an adaptation of ''Film/MrVampire''. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/{{Putty}}'': The Oriental level has caped jiangshi that hop around and drop other enemies. |
| 186 | * The main humanoid monsters in the old PC {{FPS}}, ''VideoGame/RaisingDead'', curiously resembles the traditional ''jiangshi'', having pale-white skin and clad in Manhurian robes. |
| 187 | * ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' has [[BlueBoyPinkGirl male (Bongun) and female (Munak)]] versions. They bounce to move. Later expansion adds a bishonen one, Yao Jun. Bongun, Munak, and he have a rather sad little love triangle plot. As usual with monsters in ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', you can tame them as pets (Bongun and Munak are tamed with love letters and diaries from each other) and get their hats. |
| 188 | * ''Jiangshi'' shows up as EliteMook enemies in ''VideoGame/SegaGoldenGun'', a rail-shooter dealing with a zombie apocalypse in Beijing. |
| 189 | * ''VideoGame/ReikaiDoushi'' is a pre-''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' fighting game, mostly remembered for its digitized puppet sprites, where a Taoist priest fights against eight ''jiangshi'', most notably an axe-wielding UsefulNotes/QinShihuangdi, a [[BirdPeople birdlike]] UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, an undead Yang Guifei, and other enemies with punny names based on UsefulNotes/MaoZedong, UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek or [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Xuanzang]]. |
| 190 | * Glinka from ''VideoGame/RhythmStar'' is a jiangshi and is depicted wearing Chinese clothing [[CultureChopSuey despite the fact that he is based on a real-life Russian man]]. |
| 191 | * ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': A Jiangshi is an extremely dangerous type of undead that is capable of causing a ZombieApocalypse. It feeds by draining energy from the living, but if a victim survives being drained they are cursed to slowly turn into a zombie like creature that also feeds on life energy and can spread the same curse to others. The curse can only be cured by having the necromancer that created the Jianshi put it to rest, and if is destroyed by any other means then all the zombies die. |
| 192 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns'' (specifically, Hong Kong) has Ku Feng, a vampire. As the game is set in Hong Kong, upon encountering her, your character has the option of snarkily pointing out that she should be hopping, not walking. |
| 193 | * Shikinjoh: The first of the five protagonists is a jiangshi. He has to move around mahjong tiles. |
| 194 | * In ''VideoGame/ShiningForceIII'', one of the maps has you in a grave yard surrounded by zombified villagers who insist on hoping everywhere. You can kill them, but doing so would keep them from being cured and turn the town into a literal ghost town. Luckily, a friendly monk who was just passing by joins your party and has a special ability to cure them. |
| 195 | * ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'' "Nightmare in North Point" DLC features jiangshi. Wei has to beat them up to get enough magic power to defeat the yaoguai, and throw them into the MookMaker to seal it. |
| 196 | * ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'' has ''praying mantis'' jiangshi revived by black magic. |
| 197 | * A particular level in ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'' features jiangshi as relatively weak enemies in a graveyard. There are female Jiangshi Assassins in ''Spelunky 2'', who are more mobile and can flip their own gravity. |
| 198 | * ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' held a special Halloween holiday event called Splatoween, during which players could recieve new Halloween-themed gear, such as a headband with devil horns or a {{hockey mask|AndChainsaw}}. One of these new gear items that stands out is the Kyonshi Hat, which is the Chinese Vampire's characteristic round hat and paper talisman. |
| 199 | * ''[[VideoGame/SuperChinese Super Chinese Fighter]]'', a fighting game spin-off of ''Super Chinese World 2'', adds four new characters to the series based on the ''jiangshi'' films: the vampire Kyonkyonshi, the taoist ''jiangshi'' hunter Poi (based on the typical Lam Ching-ying hero role), his granddaughter Rinrin and fake ''jiangshi'' boy Bokuchin, the latter two being based on the child protagonists of the ''Hello Dracula'' film series. |
| 200 | * ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'' has a jiang-shi enemy named Pionpi as the game's equivalent of [[DemBones Dry Bones]]; jumping on it squishes it, but it'll pop back up after a short while. |
| 201 | * This is one of Rufus's alternate costumes in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Super Street Fighter IV]]''. |
| 202 | * The Creator/{{Capcom}} side-scrolling beat 'em up ''VideoGame/TigerRoad'' had jiangshi enemies on one level. |
| 203 | * Since ''jiangshi'' are hopping Chinese vampires, ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fans once quipped that SupernaturalMartialArts AnimeChineseGirl Hong Meiling - who premiered in a game of two final boss vampires - may {{Expy}} one. She doesn't get this as much anymore since fans now equate her to ''dragons''. |
| 204 | ** Thanks to ''Ten Desires'', we now have an ''actual'' jiangshi/kyonshi in Yoshika Miyako; she is, however, presented in a way more reminiscent of an American zombie. Justified because of how much more common the typical zombie interpretation is, and Gensokyo literally runs on fantasy (although she is unable to bend her arms). |
| 205 | * ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''' plot revolves around a conflict between classic Western vampires and Jiangshi, with the latter as the bad guys and the former as the good guys. [[BlackAndGrayMorality Well, for a given value of "good", anyway]]. The game is based on the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' universe, so you may want to check out the ''Kindred of the East'' entry on this page for more info. |
| 206 | * ''VideoGame/ViceProjectDoom'' also had a Chinatown level with jiangshi in it. |
| 207 | * In the ''VideoGame/ZombiesRun'' Halloween mission Wai Chu Xiao Xin, TheVirus has turned the residents of Chinatown into jiangshi. Sam tries to remember the stories his grandfather used to tell him about how to defeat jiangshi, and luckily Sam and Five are in Chinatown to pick up cooking supplies... |
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| 211 | * ''WesternAnimation/GremlinsSecretsOfTheMogwai'': A hoard of Jiangshi appear as the main threat in episode 5. They originally stemmed from a bureaucrat who was so indecisive, he couldn’t decide whether or not to go to the next life upon death and remained in his corpse. Anyone scratched by the Jiangshi will become a Jiangshi themselves. |
| 212 | * The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "Chi of the Vampire" revolves around a Chinese Vampire as the MonsterOfTheWeek. The Jiangshi [[LifeDrinker drains]] [[LifeEnergy chi]] via green beams of light from his victims' eyes, which will turn them into his [[SlaveMooks vampire minions]] if left untreated. He has most of the usual weaknesses, but loses them when he has drained enough chi. Jackie gets frustrated when he learns how bizarre the methods of fighting these vampires are. |
| 213 | -->'''Jackie:''' [[LampshadeHanging Where are you getting these rules from?]] |
| 214 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' features these. For the most part, they're a pretty accurate depiction, though they do eat brains instead of chi. |
| 215 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', [=XJ9=] a.k.a. Jenny goes to Japan and battles a horde of these. They disappear into a puff of smoke when bonked on the head. |
| 216 | * Jiangshi are featured in the ''WesternAnimation/ThreeDelivery'' episode of the same name. |
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| 220 | * Jiangshi stories originated in the Qing dynasty, when many workers were conscripted to work on backbreaking foreign projects. As such, many of them died, with families requesting for the corpses to be returned home for burial. Transporting corpses without government permission was illegal, and so it was done at night by tying corpses to the backs of workers, creating the impression of a hopping, nocturnal corpse. |
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