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\\\"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.

Its attack can infect a person and turn the victim into another of its kind. \\\"

Sounds like a zombie to me. Shouldn\\\'t this \\\"trope\\\" be called \\\"Chinese Zombie\\\"?

I almost expected the page to say [[{{Night of the Living Dead}} \\\"the people they kill, get up and kill\\\"]]