Japanese psychedelic-rock group Acid Mothers Temple in Pittsburgh, March 31.

The Japanese psychedelic-rock group Acid Mothers Temple will play at Club Cafe on March 31.

Cheongju delegation visits Pittsburgh to learn winter weather response.

We had a great meeting with delegates from Cheongju, S. Korea comparing notes on snow removal. @CityPGH @billpeduto pic.twitter.com/3ZzfpHjCoy

— PGH Public Works (@PGHDPW) February 26, 2016

Following a visit to Paterson, NJ on the 24th, The Record writes that Pittsburgh was an upcoming destination for a group of visiting Cheongju public servants. Cheongju is a South Korean city of about 843,000, located at roughly the same longitude as Virginia Beach.

"As the winter weather response and safety issue has become direr to the needs of our residents," Po Young Yi, the natural-disaster director for [Cheongju], wrote the county in a Jan. 29 letter requesting a visit [to Patterson], "we have formed a delegation to send to the USA to learn the best practices of winter weather response."

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For the rest of their trip, they planned to visit public works departments in Montgomery County, Md., and Pittsburgh.

The delegation met with the Pittsburgh Department of Public Works on Friday the 26th.

The Propaganda Game, Coffin in the Mountain (心迷宫) at CMU International Film Festival in March.

The CMU International Film Festival recently announced the schedule for its 2016 iteration, with two movies of special interest to this site: 2014's The Propaganda Game and the 2015 Chinese film Coffin in the Mountain (心迷宫).

"The Voice of a New China: Democratic Behavior in Chinese Reality Shows Super Girl and Happy Girls" at Pitt, February 26.

The University of Pittsburgh's Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures will host MA in East Asian Studies candidate Wan Chun Huang and her colloquium "The Voice of a New China: Democratic Behavior in Chinese Reality Shows Super Girl and Happy Girls" on Friday, February 26.

1978 movie Shaolin Challenges Ninja (中華丈夫) at Hollywood Theater, February 27.

The movie Shaolin Challenges Ninja (中華丈夫) will play at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont on February 27.

"Strange Beauty: Radiography from Fukushima" at University Art Gallery, March 15 - 18.

The University of Pittsburgh's University Art Gallery will host photographer Takashi Morizumi and his exhibit "Strange Beauty: Radiography from Fukushima" from March 15 through 18.

East Asian Library Update at Pitt, February 24.

The University of Pittsburgh's East Asian Library will host an information session on its new resources on Wednesday, February 24, in 4130 Posvar Hall (map).

2016 movie Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (傷物語Ⅰ 鉄血篇) at Hollywood Theater, from February 27.

The Hollywood Theater in Dormont will show the 2016 Japanese animated movie Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (傷物語Ⅰ 鉄血篇) from February 27.

Mayor Peduto hosts delegation from Sister City Da Nang.

Today Mayor @billpeduto hosted Vice Chairman Phung Tang Viet & guest from Pittsburgh's Sister City Da Nang Vietnam. pic.twitter.com/kq0rR4VeaX

— The Next Pittsburgh (@TheNextPGH) February 19, 2016

Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto hosted a delegation from Sister City Da Nang today. The Sister City relationship was established in 2008.

Artist Talk: Zhong Biao, February 22 at Pitt.

Chinese artist Zhong Biao will give a talk at the Frick Fine Arts Center on Monday, February 22. From the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center:

In his earlier paintings from the 1990s and 21st century, Zhong intimately portrayed Chinese urban residents from acute angles or distanced perspectives, often collaging them with religious, traditional, historical, and commercial imagery. Later works tend more toward abstraction, incorporating fantastic and celestial elements. In so doing, he has imaginatively and insightfully captured the lived experience of Chinese urbanization and globalization, with a particular emphasis on the ways urban space and global time influence individual states of being and local contexts.

The talk runs from 6:00 to 7:30 pm in 204 Frick Fine Arts Building in Oakland (map), and is free and open to the public.