Hi, I think that you have the two mixed up. the dogs you discribe as "my understanding is the old style one are bred in taiwan and have a melancholy look, generally black in color, and are much longer than are taller..reaching around 30-33 inches at the withers...bloodshot conjunctivate showing and a wrinkly head and a beautiful mane... " are the new style Tibetans. All the old pictures of early imported dog everywhere show dogs much closer to the dogs we now have in the Europe. Also the dogs from Taiwan are certainly much heavier and not dog that would be functional in the landscape that these dogs are supposed to originate.