Translation before contact is a risky behavior. First of all, except for some luxury publishing houses, most publishing houses have a hard time, and the budget of foreign copyright fees may be very limited. If you are lucky enough to get in touch with the editor as in @ jinbo's answer, you need to lobby the editor first, and then the editor will lobby the person in charge of the publishing department, and even invite the president, vice president and editor-in-chief. It will take a long time to decide whether the publishing house is willing to pay the copyright fee. The premise of this is that the publishing house you are looking for is not a large publishing house, but it still ranks in the publishing system, otherwise the copyright of the news may be taken away by other sticks as soon as it comes out. Don't be too popular in translated books-when you are struggling with translation, CITIC, writers, Shanghai translations and people's literature may have talked to others. When you see the need to look for it first, you must be not famous in the translation field, so there is no fixed cooperative publishing house and no invitation for manuscripts. Then even if the big club gets the copyright, it will be given to the translators with cooperative relations, not those little-known freelance translators.