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Irene Saunders
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Saunders graduated from <a href="/facts/West_Virginia_University/Y9vryqWJ">West Virginia University</a> with a degree in <a href="/facts/Chemistry/SrNqkGVm">chemistry</a>. She is married to Lynn C. Saunders, Vice President-Executive Director in the <a href="/facts/People%27s_Republic_of_China/lTjIXY5p">People's Republic of China</a> for Westing House Electric S.A., a company that funded the creation of the dictionary.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p><i>The Right Word in Chinese</i> is a dictionary that is the first of its kind with <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">Pinyin</a> romanization of the <a href="/facts/Putonghua/ofl48GA8">Putonghua</a> language or Modern-day Standard Mandarin Chinese published in 1985. It evolved from Irene Saunders' experience of working in <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a> while having a limited knowledge of <a href="/facts/Mandarin_Chinese/yxvDg67C">Mandarin Chinese</a>. The proceeds of the dictionary were donated to the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA), particularly for the endangered <a href="/facts/Panda/BMbbMGg7">panda</a>. It later became one of the sources for many modern-day English–Chinese / Chinese–English dictionaries.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Saunders, Irene. The Right Word in Chinese, 284 pages, ISBN 971-30-0340-3 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Saunders, Irene. The Right Word in Chinese, 284 pages, ISBN 971-30-0340-3 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Saunders, Irene. The Right Word in Chinese, 284 pages, ISBN 971-30-0340-3 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>