Mary Allen
#4 Shar Pei counted their maximum number during the reign of the Chinese Ming dynasty (1367 – 1644).
But famine and wars characteristic of that historical time led to a significant reduction in the number of these dogs.
#5 In the 1940s, communists had to pay an unaffordable tax.
And even later, the leader of China, Mao Zedong, published a law according to which all domestic animals (cats, dogs, etc.) were proclaimed bourgeois vestiges and symbols of uselessness and were subject to mass destruction.
