Importing Chinese Text into InDesign

I am working on a newsletter project and will need to input translated text in Mandrine Chinese in an InDesign file? My questions are:
1) How do I input the text into InDesign? Is it as simple as cut and paste or do I need to change some settings on my Mac first to recognize the Chinese characters?
2) Is there a specific kind of document file the text needs to be in first? i.e. .doc file or something else

1) How do I input the text into InDesign? Is it as simple as cut and paste or do I need to change some settings on my Mac first to recognize the Chinese characters?
2) Is there a specific kind of document file the text needs to be in first? i.e. .doc file or something else
Adobe InDesign what version?
Version 3 introduced improved CJK, including inline input. It should work if you do as you would do in any transfer of plain text: copy from your originating application e.g. Apple Pages, clean (scrub, strip) the formatting by copying into a plain text editor and choosing Plain Text e.g. in Apple TextEdit, copy into the formatting application e.g. Adobe InDesign.
I reviewed Adobe InDesign 1.5 and was beta tester for Adobe InDesign 2 and 3.
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