{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6939faa834867e026d55a1b2/6939fab934867e026d55b02a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"No Blood, No Sparkles — China’s Hopping Vampires","description":"<p>A corpse that hops through the night in Qing dynasty robes—sounds fake, right? But the jiāngshī was once a very real fear. This week, we’re talking about China’s “hopping vampires,” and how they came from something way less supernatural: family obligations, burial delays, and the weird science of what happens to a body when you can’t lay it to rest.</p>\n<p>We get into corpse-walking rituals, qi-stealing, peachwood talismans, and why people started sleeping with mirrors by their beds. We also compare the jiāngshī to the Western vampire—because spoiler: they’re not drinking blood, and they’re definitely not hot.</p>\n<p>By the end, it’s not really a question of vampire or virus. It’s about what happens when death doesn’t go smoothly, and how communities turned anxiety into rules, rituals, and really good ghost stories.<br>\n<br>\nWorks Cited</p>\n<p>Works Cited</p>\n<p>All About History Team. “Chinese Hopping Vampires: The Qing Dynasty Roots Behind the Jiangshi Legend.” All About History, 2 Dec. 2015, www.historyanswers.co.uk/ancient/two-new-bookazines-on-sale-today/<br>\n. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.</p>\n<p>Blair, John. Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World. Princeton University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.29075015<br>\n.</p>\n<p>“Jiangshi: The Hopping Dead.” Fangoria, www.fangoria.com/jiangshi-the-hopping-dead/<br>\n. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.</p>\n<p>Francis, Sing-chen Lydia. “‘What Confucius Wouldn’t Talk About’: The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities in Yuan Mei’s ‘Zi Buyu.’” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), vol. 24, 2002, pp. 129–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/823479<br>\n.</p>\n<p>“[Google Books preview; book title unavailable].” Google Books, books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=xhJgEAAAQBAJ&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PA146. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.</p>\n<p>Liu, Xiongfei, editor. “A Mystery in Western Hunan: Walking Corpse.” ChinaCulture.org, 5 Dec. 2011, en.chinaculture.org/chineseway/2011-12/05/content_426742.htm. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.</p>\n<p>Louie, Kam, and Louise Edwards. “Introduction.” Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei, by Yuan Mei, M. E. Sharpe, 1996, pp. vii–xviii.</p>\n<p>Radford, Benjamin. “Vampires: Fact, Fiction and Folklore.” Live Science, 22 Oct. 2014, www.livescience.com/24374-vampires-real-history.html<br>\n. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.</p>\n<p>Tran, Nga. “Hopping Vampire – 僵尸 (Jiāngshī).” Chinese Popular Culture Terms, vol. 2, University of Houston Libraries, 2023, uhlibraries.pressbooks.pub/chin3343fa23/chapter/hoppingvampire/. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.</p>\n<p>Wood, S. A. “The Jiang Shi.” Medium, 10 Feb. 2020, medium.com/@shwnwd/the-jiang-shi-b97532e7e975. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.</p>\n<p>Yuan, Mei. Zibuyu, “What the Master Would Not Discuss,” According to Yuan Mei (1716–1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories. Vol. 1, edited by Paolo Santangelo, in cooperation with Yan Beiwen, Brill, 2013.</p>","author_name":"Delaney & Kendyl Florence"}