What happens when the British don't put historical treasures in a museum...
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I believe something similar happened during the Boxer rebellion. The Qing dynasty didn't give a shit about cultural artifacts and were seen tossing priceless vases out the windows and burning other relics. The Western soldiers wrote home about it in disbelief.
Hell during the 2nd Opium War when the allied forces (mostly British and French) sacked Beijing at least looted as much as possible before they started burning shit for torturing their diplomats.
I still find the reason why the British have so much Greek artifacts funny as it was because they asked the ottomans permission to make casts of vases and works so they wouldn't be lost if a disaster happened, the ottoman ruler agreed and sent an edict saying not to bother the British if you see them with Greek vases and artifacts to which the British went 'wait you're not going to stop, ask or get in our way if we take these artifacts, fuck casts grab the originals!'
Because the ruling machu court didn't consider themselves Chinese but a foreign conqueror, they didn't give a shit about han Chinese cultural artifacts, they'd rather let them burn than hand it over to the new invading foreigners or preserve it for the han Chinese