As a long term resident of China (10 years come summer) I find the most interesting aspect of Christianity in China to be its shallowness.
In many areas of China it is one more superstition layered over anything from 3 to 7 others.
From personal experience I can say that Christians in Liaoning province, Beijing City, Fuzhou province and Urumuqi have a bizarre concept of Christianity which allows it share space in their brain with Budhism, Daoism, Ancestor Worship and up to four other mutually contradictory beliefs. At the same time.
The sort of person out here who will follow Christianity will also follow just about anything else, and doesn't care in the slightest how little sense it makes.
Were the blow-in American christian missionaries (almost universally loud annoying ignorant and arrogant Texans) to take the time to get to know any of their converts they'd realize there was no comprehension whatsoever of the tenets, history or doctrines of any sect of Christianity, and certainly no comprehension of the whole "personal lord and savior" routine.
Get shoved underwater for 3 seconds, wear a cross necklace (alongside your Star of David, Mini-Mandala, Pentagram and rat-skull), and sing songs you don't understand because you have no cultural connection with the words which are full of metaphor, idiom and linguistic twists that can't be translated for 30 minutes a week. That's the sum total of the christian aspect of life for most Christians out here.
The local businesses aren't so slow though. You can now buy fake bibles, crosses and saintly figurines to burn in order to send them to your ancestors in their afterlives, just like the paper clothes, cars, houses and play-money they've been burning for grandma every year since she died.
