We are a Chinese literary site since 1997 and before that we published an e-mail version of our monthly "Olive Tree" starting 1995.
The web URL: http://www.wenxue.com/. A simple/old HTML static page redirects to http://www.wenxue.com/T3/ where the new Drupal implementation implementation of the site resides. The Drupal version installed is 4.5.2. Translation of the interface is based on the Simplified Chinese language package from http://drupal.hiweed.com/.
Since last summer we started to search for open source CMS to rebuild a site that has not been changed much since late 1990s and mostly in static HTML pages. Drupal is the one that fits our needs. Things critical for us:
[1] UTF-8 Chinese encoding support. (Not quite there with search functionality but the problem is not drupal specific. In the early versions we tried, there were PHP string/url encoding functions used that did not play nice with UTF-8 strings but those has since been address as far as I can tell.)
[2] Existing Chinese interface translation. At least about 80% done. (This is simply because we don't have the man power to do it from ground up. Truth is that I am the only tech. person.)
[3] Editorial control over content publication.
[4] Integrated BBS.
[5] At the time we didn't realize this but the Blog feature has quite an impact on community building. (Now I need to learn Drupal module to build one that will provide personal link block to show up with the blogs.)