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This study is trying to explain the relations between nationalist discourse and the diversified developing forms of christianity in mainland China. In order to analyze different brands of nationalism, I proposed a typology distinguishing between individualistic nationalism with an emphasis on human rights, liberty and equality, and collectivistic nationalism which puts the interests of the nation first and those of individuals second. In the early 20th century, the Chinese christians are in a belief tension between collectivistic nationalism and the western religion, but as the development of Chinese society, Chinese national elites started to construct different kinds of nationalism(though their ultimate goals are to built a modernization China). Meanwhile, the individualism emerged from bottom-up in China civil society. As a result, the developing circumstance of christianity changed as well. I described the distinctions between individualistic nationalism and collectivistic nationalism in Maoism era and Dengism era respectively, and analyzed the developing circumstance of quasithree- self church and non-three-self church within individualistic nationalist discourse in civil society, three-self church within collectivistic nationalist discourse in official field. In terms of the realistic meaning of christianity in mainland China, many christians in rural area formed a kind of cooperative and collaborative relationship in stead of the community function. At the end of 1990, christianity revived in urban area. As a alternative religion, it spreaded a kind of positive and optimistic energy in china society and gave chinese people spiritual comfort. At last, I expressed the realistic meaning in constructing a pluralistic integration christianity circumstance in China.