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Near the end of the Han Dynasty, the warlord Liu Bei used Xinye as a base, as a vassal under Liu Biao. Liu Biao himself had been residing in Xiangyang (today's Xiangfan). Liu Bei lost Xinye to Cao Cao in 208 and retreated to the southeast in prelude to the battle of the Red Cliffs.[4]
Administrative divisions
As 2012, this county is divided to 2 subdistricts, 8 towns and 5 townships.[5]
^Bernstein, Thomas P.; Xiaobo Lü (2003). Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China. Cambridge University Press. p. 157. ISBN9781139438049.
^Liangyan Ge (2015). The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China. University of Washington Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN9780295805610.