If foreign language support is your main criteria, you might want to get a Kindle. Otherwise pretty much any recent epub reader with built-in light will do.
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1. Can read/display Chinese well
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The Kindle GUI can be changed to Chinese or Japanese. It's also possible to use Chinese and Japanese keyboard layouts with the English GUI.
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2. Sideloading books and borrowing library books
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Sideloading works
after conversion to the AZW3 format with Calibre.
AFAIK, you won't be able to borrow Overdrive library books in Australia, unless they added Kindle support over the last few years.
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3. Must have built in light. Pretty self explanatory.
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All Paperwhite, Voyage and Oasis models have built-in light.
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4. In built dictionaries.
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All Kindle models come with free monolingual Chinese and Japanese dictionaries.
- 现代汉语词典 (Xian Dai Han Yu Ci Dian) Commercial Press
- 大辞泉 (Daijisen Japanese Dictionary)
If you register your Kindle, you can also download the following free bilingual dictionaries:
- Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary (プログレッシブ和英中辞典第３版) Shogakukan
- Progressive English-Japanese Dictionary(プログレッシブ英和中辞典) Shogakukan
- Modern Chinese-English Dictionary (现代汉英词典) FLTRP
- Modern English-Chinese Dictionary (现代英汉词典) FLTRP
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5. Price and portability. Looking for a portable size to be able to be held single handedly comfortably.
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Current Kindle models weigh between 160 and 190 grams. If you're on a budget look for refurbished Paperwhites.