Author: Shar Pei Guide Editorial Team

American Kennel Club recognition of the Shar Pei and its survival from near extinction in the mid-twentieth century.

The Shar Pei popularity boom saved the rare dog breed from extinction but created lasting health and temperament challenges.

Shar Pei numbers recovering from near extinction in the twentieth century and the tiny surviving global population.

Political and economic changes in mid-twentieth century China nearly caused the extinction of the Shar Pei breed.

The Shar Pei near extinction in the mid twentieth century and how Matgo Law saved the rare breed from disappearing.

The global Shar Pei population plummeted to perhaps sixty purebred dogs in 1978 during intense political pressures in China.

Shar Pei survival and the near extinction of the wrinkly dog breed caused by mid-twentieth century political changes in China.

The Shar Pei nearly vanished in mid-20th-century China, where dog ownership drew heavy taxes and purges, until a published plea for help helped save the breed.

Matgo Law wrote a desperate letter in the 1970s to save endangered Shar Pei dogs from extinction in China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

Matgo Law was a Hong Kong breeder who saved the Shar Pei from near extinction during the mid-twentieth century.