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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.

 

 

* 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]]''.

 

 

* ''[[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]].

** And a book for the new line, ''[[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.

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

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