| The Japanese occupation of Peking in late | | | | and Kwaine who were born in the Imperial |
| 1937 stopped future dog shows. Breeding in | | | | Palace. Lize died in 1930 and Kawanie in |
| Peking continued on a limited scale. There | | | | 1929. The Shih Tzu of Monsieur de Graeffe |
| were a few accounts of Shih Tzu in Asia | | | | moved to Iran when he was transfered there. |
| during this period of time.Mrs. Audrey Fowler | | | | Alan Roger and Sheila Bode, English Breeders, |
| of England was a great lover of the Shih Tzu | | | | saw Lize and Kawanie in Iran and became |
| and tried diligently to acquire breeding | | | | determined to own some Shih Tzu after the |
| stock without much success. Her interest in | | | | war. Their remembrance of color was that of |
| the little dogs began in 1935. Mrs. Fowler | | | | brown and gold. |
| made many trips to various sections of cities | | | | |
| of Hong Kong and Shanghai looking for the | | | | Three years later Mr. Roger acquired a puppy |
| golden long-haired dogs. Mrs. Fowler was | | | | of parents from Peking. Soon after, he |
| acqauinted with a man named Dr. Vincent | | | | acquired a gray and white bitch from a |
| Nesfield who did acquire a gold and white | | | | Chinese who was returning to China and wanted |
| Shih Tzu back in 1904.In 1904, Dr. Vincent | | | | to find a suitable home for his pet.Reverend |
| Nesfield, a medical officer in the | | | | D. Allan Easton, pastor of the Peking Union |
| Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, brought | | | | Church in late 1948 documented the only Shih |
| back a little Shih Tzu. He did not know | | | | Tzu bred in Peking that he knew of was those |
| exactly where these dogs originated. He only | | | | of Alfred Koehn, A german author and |
| knew the breed was very old. This little Shih | | | | publisher and to his knowledge the last Shih |
| Tzu was a female, who went back to India with | | | | Tzu to leave Peking were taken out by a |
| him, and died in Gambeti Assam in 1910. He | | | | British diplomat who left Hong Kong in |
| felt like there was no dog ever he could | | | | 1948.Among other Shih Tzu who left China |
| imagine more faithful and more affectionate | | | | before the Communists' occupation of Peking |
| than this little girl Shih Tzu he acquired | | | | in 1949 was Mai-Ting, a black and white bitch |
| during the Younghusband Expedition. She | | | | from Shanghai and Wuffles, a camel-colored |
| would not go to anyone else, and Mr. Nesfield | | | | male from North China who left by air just |
| felt the Shih Tzu breed had some kind of | | | | prior to the advance of the Red Army. |
| special quality that brings "good luck," | | | | Wuffles was bred to Mai-Ting and produced one |
| hence the honour of receiving one. His dog | | | | black and white puppy in 1950. Their names |
| came from the Dalai Lama, who at that time | | | | can be found in many English and American |
| had fled from Lhasa. The thirteenth Dalai | | | | pedigress. A few years later, Wuffles was |
| Lama gave these little dogs as special gifts | | | | tragically killed by a truck.The last |
| to the old Empress of China and that is why | | | | recorded Shih Tzu to leave China was a bitch |
| specimens were found in Peking. Mr. | | | | named Hsi-Li-Ya, imported to England by Mr. |
| Nesfield's Shih Tzu was gold and white, the | | | | R.P. Dobson in 1952. With the Communist |
| face was not like a Peke, i.e., "stumpy."Mrs. | | | | government in power, the fate of all dogs was |
| Audrey Fowler acquired a gold-and-white | | | | sealed. Dogs were consumers of food and thus |
| female of the right age to undertake the | | | | ordered to be destroyed. It is therefore |
| strenuous journey to England from the | | | | presumed they became extinct in Asia. |
| Countess d'Anjou in Peking. She acquired | | | | Fortunately, the Shih Tzu reached the West |
| another puppy, a little honey-colored female | | | | about 25 years before the Communist |
| from Frances Bieber, a well-known authority | | | | Revolution. It seems like a miracle they |
| on the Sacred Lion of Buddha. These early | | | | ever survived when so much of destiny seemed |
| gold-and-white imports left no progency, but | | | | to be against them. God's gift of the Shih |
| Mrs. Fowler was determined to establish a | | | | Tzu to us prevailed over all the evil the |
| gold-color line and went on to establish the | | | | breed had endured.It is my feeling that "good |
| famous Chasmu Kennel in 1938 on her return to | | | | always overcome evil." And The Shih Tzu are |
| England from Peking.Monsieur de Graeffe, | | | | certainly something "good" for all of |
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