Sunset Dongling -- The Mystery of the Theft of Treasures from the Qing Dongling Underground Palace: The Mystery of the Theft of Treasures from the Qing Dongling Underground Palace

Author: Yue Nan
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: On July 1928, the rogue warlord Sun Dianying led his troops, under the guise of suppressing bandits and conducting military exercises, armed with weapons, into Dongling. Over the course of seven days and seven nights, they broke into the mausoleums of emperors Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi, desecrated the coffins, threw out the corpses, and looted the invaluable treasures, creating a shocking case in the history of world civilization. The work meticulously depicts a series of authentic historical scenes that had been sealed away for over half a century, provides a detailed introduction to the structure, scale, and burial processes of the Qing imperial and royal tombs, and vividly recreates the process of the decline of China's last feudal dynasty.