Giving a pet a second chance at a good life is always a wonderful thing to do and when you take in a Shar Pei rescue dog you are doing a wonderful and humane thing.
But in the meantime you will need patience and you will need to make sure that you keep an eye out for potentially bad traits and be ready to deal with some of the issues that come along with taking in an abused pet.
Let your new Shar Pei rescue dog check out its new home and just take in all of the new sights and scents. Very quickly the dog will begin to realize that it is in a new situation and that could be good or that could be bad but at least it will have some time to get a feel for where it is and know it is not in the abusive situation anymore.
When your Shar Pei rescue dog is getting adjusted to your home you need to reduce the commotion, noise, and sudden movements that are going on in the home to give the dog a chance to get used to your home. A Shar Pei does not like a lot of sudden movements and can get a little confused and even frustrated when there are a lot of things going on and a lot of activity coming at it. So for the benefit of your new dog you may want to keep the clatter down for a little while until the dog gets used to its new home and new family.
Never punish your dog. As you begin the process of training your dog to be part of your family the worst thing you can do is punish a Shar Pei. They are extremely intelligent and can take to training very well but after a while they can get bored so it is up to you to learn ways to keep your dog interested during training and never punish the dog for mistakes it makes. The dog will respond much better to positive reinforcement of the things it does well.
When the Shar Pei was first being bred in China it was bred as an aggressive but intelligent dog. Your Shar Pei rescue dog will more than likely have some of that aggression going on as defense mechanisms to what it has been through.
But because of what your Shar Pei rescue dog has been through it may display those primal signs of aggression when you first get it. Do not panic and just use a lot of love and patience. The Shar Pei is smart and will eventually catch on that everything is okay but in the meantime just be patient.
Anything you try to teach a Shar Pei rescue dog will eventually sink in and the dog responds very well to training. But you need to exercise patience and have a little respect for what the dog has been through before you can really make your new dog the loyal family pet it wants to be.