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Draped in Qing dynasty robes and sporting fanged teeth, long nails and grasping, outstretched arms, the Chinese hopping corpse, jiangshi, is a variation on the vampire that you won’t soon forget! For audio descriptions, go to Settings - Audio Track - English Descriptive. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateStoried ***** Written and Hosted by: Dr. Emily Zarka Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Executive Producer: Dr. Emily Zarka Producer: Thomas Fernandes Editor/Animator: Jordyn Buckland Illustrator: Samuel Allan Executive in Charge (PBS): Maribel Lopez Director of Programming (PBS): Gabrielle Ewing Additional Footage: Shutterstock Music: APM Music Descriptive Audio & Captions provided by The Described and Captioned Media Program Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monstrumpbs ***** Bibliography Ancunta, Katarzyna. “Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City.” The New Urban Gothic, eds. H.G. Millette and R. Heholt. Palgrave Gothic, 2020, pp. 173-189. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “From Revenants to Vampires The Transmedia Evolution of the Jiangshi.” The Transmedia Vampire, Ed. Simon Bacon. McFarland & Company, 2021, pp. 146-160. Ancuta, Katarzyna. “Scared Stiff: Jiangshi and Chinese Vampires.” The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire, Ed. Simon Bacon. Palgrave, 2024, pp. 751-771. Boyd, David John. “Blood, Dust and the Black universe From Asia Extreme to the Vampire World- Image in thirst, the Wailing, and the New Korean Vampire Horror Cinema.” Vampire Films Around the World: Essays on the Cinematic Undead of Sixteen Cultures, Ed. James Aubrey. McFarland, 2020, pp. 152-178. Burns, Stu. “Vampire and Empire: Dracula and the Imperial Gaze.” eTropic, vol. 16, issue 1, 2017, pp. 1-13. Diffrient, David Scott. “Hands, Fingers and Fists: ‘Grasping’ Hong Kong Horror Films.” Hong Kong Horror Cinema, Eds. Gary Bettinson and Daniel Martin. Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 110-132. Hudson, Dale. “Vampires and Transnational Horror.” A Companion to the Horror Film. Wiley, 2014, pp. 463–482. Moshan, Guo. “Hong Kong vampire films: anxious imaginings of death and illness.” Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 28 July, 2022, pp. 1-15. Moskowitz, Marc. L. “Hopping Vampire Zombies: Hong Kong Cinema Brings Chinese Folklore to the Present.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 4, 2022, pp. 867-885. Roy, Diganta. “The Kick and/or the Crucifix: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and the Kung Fu Craze of 1970s.” Critical Reading on Hammer Horror Films. Eds. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards. Routledge, 2024: pp. 163-174. Sing-chen, Lydia Francis. ‘"What Confucius Wouldn't Talk About’: The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities in Yuan Mei's ‘Zi buyu.’”Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Vol. 24, Dec. 2002: pp. 129-160. Stachowski, Kamil, and Olaf Stachowski. “Possibly Oriental Elements in Slavonic Folklore. Upiór-Wampir.” Essays in the History of Languages and Linguistics, 2017, pp. 643-693. Soon Ng, Andrew Hock. “A Typological Inquiry into Asian Undead Beings, or, Why There Are No Vampires in the East.” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural, vol. 10, issue, 2, 2021, pp. 218-248.