Flushing, Queens, New York is often recognized as the 'Chinese Manhattan' due to the dominant population of Chinese and Chinese-Americans that live in this area. Downtown Flushing is known for its restaurants, bakeries and Asian specialty stores and its easy transportation into Manhattan. Flushing finds itself as the epicenter of the Queens commercial and residential district, where access to JFK and LaGuardia airport act as major runways to/from neighboring boroughs.
Kolkata is approximately where St. John went to perform his missionary work in India. This is evidenced in Chapter 34 when St. John states, "'And I shall see it again…in dreams when I sleep by the Ganges'" and in Chapter 35 when Diana states, "'Plain! You? Not at all. You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta."' The Ganges River is vast and extends through much of northern India, but it does intersect with Kolkata specifically, so these two instances of dialogue both support this approximation.
Martinique is the island that Bertha's mother and Christophine are both from. It's referenced as the "Paris of the West Indies" owing to the fact that it's a part of the French West Indies and not a former British colony (Rhys 72). This geocode goes specifically to the town of St Pierre which is where Bertha got the dress that sparks the comparison to Martinique and Paris between her and Rochester.
This Korean term is used throughout Re Jane is most commonly defined as the ability of a person to gauge other people's moods. It is considered important in interpersonal relationships. More specifically. it is the art of sensing what people are thinking and feeling. The emphasis of n unchi is usually placed on the collective rather than specific inbdividuals. In other words, nunchi is an asset at business meetings. IKn this article, the author states that in Korean child rearing, it's on a par with "Look both ways before crossing the street".
