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S04E03 - Jiangshi - "Hopping Vampires?"

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History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by researcher Katarzyna “Kasia” Ancuta to learn more about the Chinese creature known as the Jiangshi – but more famous in the West as “Hopping Vampires.” It turns out that their history is being complicated by their appearances in pop-culture!
Jiangshi Movies: (affiliate links)
Encounters of the Spooky Kind
Mr. Vampire
Rigor Mortis
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Additional Reading:
The Hun and Po soul
Scared Stiff: Jiangshi and Chinese Vampires – from the Palgrave Handbook of Vampires
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling (wiki)
The Shibian (The Animated Corpse) by Pu Songling (project gutenberg)
Penanggal (pen-nan-gal)
Manananggal  (Mana nan gal)
Pop (Thai Ghost) – wiki
Krasue (Thai version of Manananggal)  “pop krasue” in episode audio – sounds like “pi-krasue”
Previous Episodes Related:
Chinese Ghosts
Mr. Vampire is available on DVD and Blu-Ray now, but you might have to track down an import.  Or you can watch it streaming on The Criterion Channel.  



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Honestly, I blame Mr. Vampire for all the confusion. What confusion? Oh, just the way

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that the fascinating Chinese monster known as the

2:04.8

Jiangxi has become hopelessly intertwined with vampire lore due to the

2:09.8

success of this zainy Kung Fu horror comedy from 1985. I had such a hard time

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tracking this movie down back in the day, relying on the now mostly lost world of

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bootleg VHS movies sold in the back of fan conventions.

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Sure, the films were often very poor quality and sure they sometimes didn't have subtitles,

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but when you read about these crazy genre films and magazines like Fangoria and Starlog, if you weren't in a major

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US city there was little hope that a film like Mr. Vampire was going to come to your small town

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