Following his release from a year's imprisonment in Buchenwald, 1938-1939, Charles K. Bliss took refuge in Shanghai in late 1940 and remained there until 1946. There he continued his interest in silent film-making, a medium he saw as overcoming language barriers. After the end of World War II, he moved to Australia where, inspired by the non-alphabetic Chinese written language, he developed a system of non-language based symbols, Blissymbolics.
Bliss, Charles Kasiel, 1897-1985 Shanghai (China) Baseball--China Boats and boating--China Carriages and carts--China Shanghai American School Winged Victory Monument (Shanghai, China)
Place
31.205756 / 121.447122 China Shanghai
Source
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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