re: No chinese in space before 2008
Yes, indeed, no spacewalk had been attempted from a Soyuz spacecraft since 1969.
That's also what makes me wonder about spacewalking from the CEV.
But the chinese would spacewalk alone?
The very first Leonov spacewalk was done alone ; while the Gemini pilot woud do his EVA, the commander was also in the vacuum of space.
I've read it's possible they'd launch other unmanned Shenzhous shortly after in order to constitute a space station. The orbital module could then be the airlock of that space station and they'd be able to re-use the spacesuit.