[2] The earliest Chinese migrants in Denmark are believed to have been 34 men from Guangdong who came to the famous Tivoli Gardens amusement park in 1902 as travelling performers on contracts for the summer.
[3] Similar forms of "coincidental arrival" would continue over the next few decades: some sailors jumped ship in Denmark or became stranded there during the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War and later World War I, a few itinerant soapstone traders arrived from Qingtian, Zhejiang and ended up staying in the country, and other similar cases.
[4] Early immigrants maintained few community links to each other or to their ancestral land, and thus were quickly assimilated into Danish society.
Police statistics showed 113 people from mainland China living in Denmark as of 1969, and one researcher estimates perhaps 60 more from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.
[2] Asylum seekers from the People's Republic of China are not prevalent among Chinese migrants to Denmark, even though Denmark has one of Europe's lowest rejection rates for asylum claims; such migrants prefer other countries in Southern, Central, or Eastern Europe, due to the better opportunities for work there.
As a result of feedback from Chinese tourists, a new museum devoted to him was opened at the town hall square.