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{{quote|''Stop shooting! I'm not a zombie! I'm a jiang shi! I don't even eat people OR their brains!''|[[Darkstalkers|Hsien-Ko's]] win quote to [[Resident Evil|Chris Redfield]] in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''}}

 

Like Western vampires and zombies, its attack can infect a person and turn the victim into another of its kind.

 

 

Subtrope of [[Our Vampires Are Different]]. Compare [[Classical Movie Vampire]], [[Looks Like Orlok]].

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== Hong Kong/Chinese Movies ==

* ''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.

* ''[[Spooky Encounters]]''.

 

== Non-Chinese uses ==

* The corpse servants of the Tao family in ''[[Shaman King]]''. Fitting for a Chinese family of shamans. 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 [[Bruce Lee Clone]].

* The CMX manga ''[http://www.dccomics.com/cmx/?action=on_sale&i=8565 Zombie Fairy]'' features one of these in the title role.

* Chiaotzu from ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' 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.

 

 

* Turn up in ''[[Top Ten]]'' as the Triad-analogue rivals of the Mafia-analogue European vampire mobsters.

 

 

* One of the blonde heroine's costume changes in ''Asian Dynamite'' is one of these.

* ''The Jitters'', an old movie inspired by ''Mr. Vampire'', involves a ''Chiang-Shi'' getting loose in modern America.

 

 

* A classic example of a hopping corpse is sent to first threaten and then attack Geneviève Dieudonné in [[Kim Newman]]'s ''[[Anno Dracula]]''.

 

 

* The mook enemies in ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'', the Rinshi, are based on the Jiang-shi, though they feed off fear instead of life energy. That and jump headfirst into cars and explode them.

** Aside fron parsing the name as two words rather than one, no significant changes seem to be made to the Rin Shi in ''Gekiranger'''s adaptation, ''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]]''.

* In ''[[Choujuu Sentai Liveman]]'', a [[Monster of the Week]] transformed the departed souls lingering on Academia Island into Jiangshi in order to have a private army.

* ''[[Forever Knight]]'': Nick Knight is captured by a Chinese acupuncturist who (incorrectly) believes he killed his mother years before. He identifies Nick as a Jiangshi.

* While not present in ''[[Blood Ties]]'', they 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 [[Vampire Hunter|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.

 

 

* ''[[Kindred of the East]]'', an entire roleplaying supplement in the ''[[Old World of Darkness]]''. 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 another example of the setting's many conflicting religions which are [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|all somehow true]] ''[[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|and]]'' [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|mutually exclusive from one another]].

* One of the many monsters used by the Eaters of the Lotus from the [[Tabletop Games|Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Feng Shui]]''. The Architects of the Flesh also use them, modifying them with Arcanowave technology to become Bouncing Benjys.

* The ''[[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.

 

 

* The NES game ''[[Phantom Fighter]]'' puts you in the role of a traveling monk who goes around fighting ''jiangshi'' (or "kyonshees", as the game calls them).

** Which is a mistranslation of "Kyonshi", the japanese name for the species. It's also notable for the fact that, with a special item, an [[Undead Child]] Jiangshi is playable.

* The Pionpi in ''[[Super Mario Land]]''.

* The third ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' has ''praying mantis'' Jiang-shi.

* From the MMORPG ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'', there are [[Blue Boy Pink Girl|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 [[Ragnarok Online]], you can tame them as pets (Bongun and Munak are tamed with love letters and diaries from each other) and get their [[Nice Hat|hats]].

* 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.

* This is one of Rufus's alternate costumes in ''[[Street Fighter IV|Super Street Fighter IV]]''.

* A few of these appear in The Temple of Xi'an in ''[[Fear Effect|Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix]]''. They are invincible and can paralyze you if they hit you.

 

 

* One of these is featured in an episode of ''[[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.

* In ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'', XJ9 a.k.a. Jenny goes to Japan and battles a horde of these. [[All Asians Are Alike|Yes, Japan]].