[yixiang]

I used to do English to Chinese translation jobs on Upwork, the pay was reasonable (translators are very under-paid in China) so there were some good translators. Nowadays Upwork are much more hostile to freelancers (or just Chinese freelancers?) and Chinese translators are leaving the platform.

You should be able to easily find a freelancer by asking any Chinese people. Just look for someone who speaks very good English. Incompetent translators usually don't understand what they're translating.

Also, I suggest you to spend time communicating with your translator, instead of simply providing an excel. Translators need to know the context of the material they're translating. If they're translating a game, show them the game, if they're translating the app, show them the app and explain to them what it does. Or they will make hilarious mistakes. For example, "The Elder Scroll" was once translated to Chinese as "Old Man Scrollbar", "Lord of the Ring" as "Lord of Horse Racing Track".

[JVIDEL]

I was actually planning to work together with the translator since I'm also interested in any input he might have on making the app more friendly to Chinese users. Its not a game but its game-related and oriented to gamers so if the translator could help with things like Chinese gamer slang and culture that would be awesome, but I have to idea where to ask for a Chinese guy who wants to be a translator and its also a gamer heh.

Also would be good if he could (or has a friend who can) be my community manager for China since I don't want Chinese users to feel left out just because I can't speak their language.

[yixiang]

I'm a Chinese, and I'm a gamer, I can help. I'm mainly a developer so I can take this gig if it doesn't take too much time. Or I can ask around for you.

You can send me an email (see my profile) about the details.