Monkey shines in Chinese TV classic

I rarely left my sofa in recent weeks, except to go to work, but this had nothing to do with the heat wave.

I was in a rapt state because, to use a Western expression for an addiction that can't be shaken, I had "a monkey on my back".

The Monkey King, that is - the impish lead character from Journey to the West, the Chinese television series with English subtitles that was launched in 1986(and rebroadcast about 2,000 times since).