Reading chinese characters in MS-Access DB 1

I'm trying to read a MS-Access database table that contains an Artist field. For some table records the Artist field contains chinese characters.

When I read the field, with:
String fieldValue = resultset.getString("Artist");

or with:

byte[] temp = resultset.getBytes("Artist");
String fieldValue = new String[temp);

then all what I get back from the chinese texts are question marks (like: Artist=???).

How can I obtain the true contents of the Artist field, either as a string or as a byte array?