How to display Chinese characters in Oracle?

I am using Oracle 8i with Language settings as AMERICA.
I am displaying records which is contain Chinese characters.
But it is not displayed properly in Oralce.
How to change the settings to display Chinese characters?
Thanks

It could be possible to display Chinese characters using SQL Developer without any specific NLS_LANG setting because SQL Developer is using JDBC which doesn't use NLS_LANG setting according to When is NLS_LANG used ?.
For example, I'm able to display the following Chinese character in SQL Developer 1.2.0 on Windows XP Pro with French Windows setting and NLS_LANG set in Windows registry to FRENCH_FRANCE.WE8ISO8859P1.
select unistr('\8349') from dual;
草
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