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Like Western vampires and zombies, its attack can infect a person and turn the victim into another of its kind.
Typical weaknesses of a jiangshi are the blood of a black dog, a wooden sword made from a peach tree, a hen's egg, glutinous rice, and the urine of a virgin boy.
Subtrope of [[Our Vampires Are Different]]. Compare [[Classical Movie Vampire]], [[Looks Like Orlok]].
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* 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.
* Ling-Ling from ''[[Rosario
* Rin Azuma from [[Yozakura Quartet]] is one, though she [[Cute Monster Girl|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 [[Sphere of Destruction|matter-destroying forcefields]] in the anime.
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* 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.
* Featured in the initial episodes of ''[[Chinese Paladin]] 3''; referred to as zombies.
* 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.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[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.
* 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.
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* The Pionpi in ''[[Super Mario Land]]''.
* The third ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' has ''praying mantis'' Jiang-shi.
* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', we have Nightwalker heartless in the Land of the Dragons, [[Mulan]]'s homeworld.
* 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.
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