Abstract: It is worthy retrospecting the reception of Nietzsche’s works in 1902-2000. The first appeared between 1918 and 1925 with Nietzsche drawing attention of many men of letters and philosophers，some of whom became the founders of modern Chinese thoughts during and after May Fourth Movement in 1919. After 1925 Chinese intellectuals disappointedly witnessed the failure of Nietzsche’s“transvaluation of all values”. The second phase began at the begin? ning of Anti-Japanese War（1937）and culminated in 1940-41. The passion for Nietzsche was kindled at the third time in 1978. As a result，all kinds of articles，books and translations emerged in 1980s. If the first " Nietzsche-fever" was characterized by the effort at the wholesale "transvaluation of all values"，mostly in connection with the ancient Chinese tradition，and the second by the renaissance or awakening of the Chinese nationalist spirit，the third one was connected with the conflict of existentialist values with the nationalalist ideology represented by the Guomindang in Taiwan，and far more obliquely against the moist interpretation of Marxism in the Mainland.

Key words: Nietzsche, Nietzsche’s fever, Chinese Modern Intellectual, Reception, LI Shicen