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Mitja Saje (Chinese: 萨米加) (born 16 August 1947) is a Slovenian sinologist.

Mitja Saje was born in Ljubljana. He studied at both Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. 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. In 1971 the two of them travelled to East Africa and started to learn Chinese. In 1972, he graduated at the Faculty of Economics. After graduation, he was employed as consultant for economic development at the Executive council of the Socialist Republic Slovenia. In 1976 he got a postgraduate scholarship to study in China, where he obtained a Master’s degree in History of China at Nanjing University. After the return from China he started to conduct a Chinese language course at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. There he received his PhD in 1994 for a thesis discussing the Chinese economy during the Ming Dynasty. He lives and works in Ljubljana. He is married to the painter Wang Huiqin.