Do any of you have experience transferring at Beijing from Dragonair (apparently a Cathy Pacific subsidiary) to Continental?

After a harrowing experience dealing with Air China and the whole Chinese immigration system in Beijing today, I am now very worried about a trip I must take next week.

I am scheduled out of PEK on a CO "first" class ticket. I am inbound into PEK in steerage on a flight from Hong Kong which is booked as Air China (my more familiar Star Alliance turf) but turns out to be operated by Dragonair. There is a legal amount of connecting time between flights (100 minutes) but not a lot of margin.

The bigger question is, though, whether there is going to be a problem - for me or for my bag - to make the change of planes as an international transfer without going through immigration (me) or customer (the bag). This is critical because I wouldn't have time (from what I saw today of HOW long it takes) to pick up the bag and recheck it, and more critically, I had a single-entry visa for China, so once I depart China (tonight) I don't believe I can reenter.

SO, is it possible to get from a Dragonair flight directly to the Continental Newark flight without "landing" myself?

Thanks for your help.


David