@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7sr79.7, ISBN = {9780691130057}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sr79.7}, abstract = {Territory is a political concept. It does not simply refer to a geographical space, but to “the land or district lying around a city or town and under its jurisdiction,” as theOxford English Dictionarydefines it. The concept thus designates a relationship between a community of politically organized people and their space. In more exact terms, a territory is a geographical space that is under some kind of jurisdiction or control of certain people organized in the form of a political community. Similarly, the concept of territorial boundary does not simply refer to geographical boundaries; it denotes, rather, the}, author = {Joseph Chan}, booktitle = {Confucian Political Ethics}, pages = {61--84}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, title = {TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES AND CONFUCIANISM}, year = {2008} }