Yuan Mei
Fictional accounts of jiangshi were included in Qing collections of ghost stories and other supernatural tales. They are featured in the story "A Corpse's Transmutation" ("Shibian") in the "Shuyiji" collection, "A Vampiric Demon" ("Jiangshi gui") and "Spraying Water" ("Penshui") in Pu Songling's "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", and "The Demonic Corpse" ("Jiangshi gui") in Dongxuan Zhuren's "Shiyiji". In "Spraying Water", the animated corpse spews a liquid that kills the wife of a government official and her two servants. A traveler is chased by a jiangshi in "A Corpse's Transmutation", which killed three of his companions. There are thirty stories of jiangshi in "Zi Bu Yu", written by Yuan Mei. Qing writer Ji Xiaolan provides a detailed description of jiangshi folklore in his book "Yuewei Caotang Biji".