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The belief in jiangshi and its representation in the popular imagination was also partly derived from the habit of "corpse-driving", [6] [7] a practice involving the repatriation of the corpses of dead laborers across Xiang province (present-day Hunan) to their hometowns for burial in family gravesites. The corpses were trussed up against ...
Author Michael Thomason wrote, "It should be pointed out that, though often cited as the first major jiang shi feature, Shaw Brothers studios preceded Mr. Vampire by six years with Liu Chia Liang's martial arts-horror-comedy The Spiritual Boxer II (1979) (aka: The Shadow Boxing), which not only showcased the jiang shi but also delved into the ...
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up, hardcover: Pantheon (April 15, 2008), 336 pages, ISBN 978-0-375-42542-4; trade paperback: Anchor; Reprint edition (May 5, 2009) 352 pages, ISBN 978-0-307-38837-7 English translation of 27 interviews. Fräulein Hallo und der Bauernkaiser, German translation, 2009
A traveler is chased by a jiangshi in A Corpse's Transmutation, which killed three of his companions. [8] There are thirty stories of jiangshi in Zi Bu Yu, written by Yuan Mei. [5] Qing writer Ji Xiaolan provides a detailed description of jiangshi folklore in his book Yuewei Caotang Biji [9] (The Shadow Book of Ji Yun, Empress Wu Books, 2021).
One year the ritual is botched, causing one adult jiangshi and one child jiangshi to rise from the grave. A traveling Taoist named Ku-Su warns the villagers and even attempts to fight the child jiangshi, but local orphans from Yuen Cheung-Yan's Peking Opera see this and take the child jiangshi into their protection, mistaking Ku-Su for a villain.
The corpse and the two end up separated during the chaos, and they land in Africa. The corpse lands in front of Xixo , where he and his tribe are being confronted by a rival clan led by two greedy Caucasians. The corpse's presence scares away the villains. Xixo somehow learns to control the corpse using a bell and he takes it to his tribe.
Cheung is tricked into spending the night in a temple, but he encounters Tsui who tells him that he must sleep on the roof. Cheung does so. A coffin in the temple opens, and a jiangshi, a hopping corpse, begins looking for him, but he is safe. Chin gives up when he cannot find Cheung (he is controlling the jiangshi), just as Cheung falls down.
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