The old-style chinese language codes used in django 1.4 series are now deprecated, as discussed here:  https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18419.
Although majority of browsers still use the old-style language codes, some new browsers such as IE11 in Windows 8.1 start to use the new-style names instead of old-style ones which makes the current chinese translations of edX can't work properly under these browsers.
As there is no easy way for edX to change a higher version of django, I think we could do some mapping here so that the users who use IE11 in Windows 8.1 or other browsers that use the new-style names can view correct translations.
Also, this fix will make users who use one of the language codes:  zh-hk ,  zh-sg  and  zh-mo  can see the correct translations.