Mitja Saje

As a student in the time of former nonaligned Yugoslavia he visited most of European countries, the United States, and North Africa.

Then together with Andrej Bekeš in winter 1969–1970, with a basic knowledge of Japanese, he travelled to Japan via the Middle East and India and back to Europe through the USSR.

After graduation, he was employed as consultant for economic development at the Executive council of the Socialist Republic Slovenia.

Since 1995, he has been a professor at the Chair of Sinology, Department of Asian and African Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana.

Since 2006 he is also teaching Chinese history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb in Croatia.