The Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum was a major incident in early June 1928, in which some of the major mausoleums of the Chinese Qing dynasty in the Eastern Qing tombs were ransacked or vandalized b
State of the burial chamber of Empress Dowager Cixi's tomb, photographed as part of the post-1928 looting investigations. Cixi's discarded corpse, burial shroud and damaged coffin are visible in the background.
Sun Dianying, the Chinese warlord who perpetrated the 1928 demolition and mass looting of the imperial tombs of the Eastern Mausoleum complex
Funerary procession of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Memorial tower of Cixi's tomb.