I, Eyup Saritas, was born in Afyon, Turkey, in 1968 and graduated from the Sinology in Ankara University in 1991, with the dissertation titled “Metrics in Modern Chinese.” I began ...view moreI, Eyup Saritas, was born in Afyon, Turkey, in 1968 and graduated from the Sinology in Ankara University in 1991, with the dissertation titled “Metrics in Modern Chinese.” I began with my postgraduate study in the Department of General Turkish History in the same faculty in October of the same year. Having completed the courses, I was granted scholarship and sent to the University of Beijing from 1992 to 1994. After returning to Turkey, I took office as a research assistant in the Department of History in the Faculty of Letters in Ege University in 1995. Having completed the doctoral courses, I was sent to the Beijing University of Language and Culture by Ministry of Education from 1997 to 1998. I made researches in Lenin Library of Moscow in 2004, in Göttingen University in Germany in 2005, and in Leiden University of the Netherlands. Also in 2008, I made researches on the Ancient Turkish and Chinese culture in Lund University and Uppsala University in Sweden, in Aarhus University in Denmark, in Northwest University in China, and in Inner Mongolia University. I still hold office as an associate professor in the Department Istanbul University.view less