->'''Uncle''': ''We have to take the Chi Vampire's left sock, put a mushroom in it, and throw it into a river to depower it.''\\
'''Jade:''': ''....you're making this up.''
-->-- ''JackieChanAdventures'' Episode 35 "Chi of the Vampire"

The monster called a Chinese vampire is also known as a hopping corpse, hopping vampire or similar names, and in Chinese is known as Jiangshi, or other variations depending on how you romanize the name.

Despite the name, the idea developed independently of Western vampires and they aren't all that similar. A typical Chinese vampire drains life energy (because of Western influence, some versions do drain blood instead). It is more of a monster than a Western vampire; it doesn't speak and has pale skin, long clawlike fingernails, and a long prehensile tongue. It can move only by hopping and has its arms outstretched in rigor mortis. The Chinese vampire is usually dressed in Qing Dynasty robes. Interestingly, ''jiangshi'' is Chinese for "Stiff Corpse", which is the reason for its odd method of locomotion: being dead, the body is stiff and therefore cannot walk and has to hop.

In some versions, it detects potential victims by their breath and holding one's breath will temporarily hide from one. It may be controlled with a parchment inscribed with runes placed on its head. Legend has it that the Jiang-shi were corpses enchanted by sorcerers to walk home to be buried in their ancestral burial grounds.

Like Western zombies, its attack can infect a person and turn the victim into another of its kind.
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* ''[[Main/{{MrVampire}} Mr. Vampire]]'' from 1985 is the classic example of a Chinese vampire in films. It started off a small craze of supernatural-themed movies in Hong Kong at the time, and had four sequels.
* ''[[Main/{{SpookyEncounters}} Spooky Encounters]]''.
* ''[[Main/{{TsuiHarksVampireHunters}} Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters]]''.
* ''The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires'' (1974) is a co-production with {{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''.
* Horribly, a really naff Hong Kong sequel to ''TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' features one of these!
**Specifically, "The Gods Must Be Crazy in China". A group of tribesmen come across the vampire, and use it to get fruit out of a tree, by having it hop into it repeatedly. Yeah.

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[[folder: Non-Chinese uses ]]

* The NES game ''PhantomFighter'' puts you in the role of a traveling monk who goes around fighting ''jiangshi'' (or "kyonshees", as the game calls them).
* The mook enemies in ''[[Main/{{SuperSentai}} Gekiranger]]'', the Rinshi, are based on the Jiang-shi.
** Aside fron parsing the name as two words rather than one and making them feed off of fear, no significant changes seem to be made to the Rin Shi in ''Gekiranger'''s adaptation, ''PowerRangersJungleFury''.
* Hsien-ko (US)/Lei-Lei (Japan) in the video game ''[[Main/{{Darkstalkers}} Darkstalkers]]'' is a Jiang-shi; her sister's soul resides in the talisman on her forehead to protect Lei-Lei from becoming evil.
* The Pionpi in ''[[Main/{{SuperMarioLand}} Super Mario Land]]''.
* An entire roleplaying supplement in the ''[[Main/{{WorldOfDarkness}} World Of Darkness]]''. Calling themselves the ''Kuei-Jin'', they are spirits that 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 another example of the setting's many conflicting religions which are [[Main/{{FantasyKitchenSink}} all somehow true ]]''[[Main/{{FantasyKitchenSink}} and ]]''[[Main/{{FantasyKitchenSink}} mutually exclusive from one another]].
** And a book for the new line, ''[[VampireTheRequiem Vampire: the Requiem]]'' features the Jiang Shi, 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.
* One of these is featured in an episode of ''[[Main/{{JackieChanAdventures}} Jackie Chan Adventures]]''; it drains chi via green beams of light from its victim's eyes. The Jiang-shi has most of the usual weaknesses, but loses them when it has enough chi.
* The third ''[[Main/{{SlyCooper}} Sly Cooper]]'' has ''praying mantis'' Jiang-shi.
* The corpse servants of the Tao family in ''[[Main/{{ShamanKing}} Shaman King]]'' are referred to as Jiang-shi, but bear little resemblance to the traditional version. Lee Pai-Long, on the other hand does resemble one closely - but is much less stiff, being a BruceLeeClone.
* One of the many monsters used by the Eaters of the Lotus from the [[Main/{{TabletopGames}} Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Main/{{FengShui}} Feng Shui]]''. The Architects of the Flesh also use them, modifying them with Arcanowave technology to become Bouncing Benjys.
* From ''KingdomHearts II'', we have Nightwalker heartless in the Land of the Dragons, Mulan's homeworld.
* From the MMORPG ''RagnarokOnline'', there are male (Bongun) and female (Munak) versions. They bounce to move.
** There's also a bishonen one, Yao Jun. Bongun, Munak, and he have a rather sad little love triangle plot.
* One of the blonde heroine's costume changes in ''Asian Dynamite'' is one of these.
* An optional boss in ''{{Castlevania}}: Order of Ecclesia'' is a Jiang Shi. Surprisingly, it's the only boss to ''not'' be permanently destroyed after you beat it; 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.
* In ''MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', [=XJ9=] a.k.a. Jenny goes to Japan and battles a horde of these. Yes, Japan.
* A classic example of a hopping corpse is sent by FuManchu to first threaten and then attack Geneviève Dieudonné in KimNewman's ''AnnoDracula''.
* A particular level in ''{{Spelunky}}'' features Jiang-shi as relatively weak enemies in a graveyard.
* The CMX manga ''[[http://www.dccomics.com/cmx/?action=on_sale&i=8565 Zombie Fairy]]'' features one of these in the title role.
* ''{{Uzumaki}}'' features a Chinese Vampire with an unusually high degree of BodyHorror.
** The manga? I watched the movie but can't remember seeing something vampire-like.
*** Not in the traditional sense. In the manga, [[spoiler:the jack-in-the-box kid is run over and killed by a car. A large spring from the car gets tangled inside his body, causing his corpse to spring out of its coffin, as one last hurrah.]]
* Chiaotzu from ''{{DragonBall}}'' appears to be based on these, wearing a Qing Dynasty outfit and having extremely pale skin. His telepathic attacks also require him having his arms outstretched, in a rather Jiangshi-esque way.
* A bunch of these showed up in the most recent chapter of RosarioPlusVampire II, led by the undead sister of a character (of unknown monster type) introduced the chapter before.
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