Very interesting to look at the original content of https://github.com/greatfire/ and https://github.com/cn-nytimes. One appears to be a collection of resources for proxying around the Great Firewall [1] and the other has a number of clones of the New York Times translated in Mandarin [2][3].
I didn't realize until now that part of the NYT's strategy in having a Mandarin version may be due in part to it's being blocked in China -- a reply to China's censors, of sorts.