‘Mono’ The Shanghai Monkey – Long Before Mr Mills

Now loyal and well read China Rhyming readers will know that Emily “Mickey” Hahn (who was many things, not all them polite to say, as well as a New Yorker correspondent in Shanghai) was famous for walking around Shanghai with her pet gibbon Mr Mills – famously sh would turn up to nightclubs, cabarets and Sir Victor Sassoon’s dinner parties with the awful thing in diapers to try and stop it doing what it invariably did – urinated or masturbated presumably to everyone’s a) great humour or b) chagrin.

But really Hahn was just old hat, just another American gal with a monkey in Shanghai…A good decade before Hahn arrived, in 1927, Anna Mae Morgan had a monkey, Mono, in Shanghai that caused plenty of guffaws and scenes. Actually it was her sons, but still…