 The Shar-Pei has been identified as a basal breed that predates the emergence of the modern breeds in the 19th century.The Shar-Pei breed comes from the Guangdong province of China.The original Shar-Pei from China may have looked very different from the breed now popular in the West (but that has not been confirmed); in southern China, Hong Kong, and Macau the Western type and the traditional type are differentiated by calling them, respectively, the 'meat-mouth' and the 'bone-mouth' Shar-Pei.