One thing of note is whenever there is vacuume created due to whichever casue or policy, it will be filled again, so when the chinese urban population got elevated from simple life (almost poverty) to prosperity due to opening of economy, solace that newly found bourgeois class found is in the Christianity, its the fastest growing religion in China today and in near future China will be country with largest Christian population in the world.
In most of theology debates in comparative studies in modern times, leading apologists are always chinese Doctors of Divinity (DD), missionaries or clergy, their newly found relgious zeal is very evident, so the thing that didn't take root for almost 2 thousand years, this internal strife between ideologies and cultural revolution provided it with very fertile ground to take root.
