By reviewing and analyzing foreign research literature in the field of corporate governance from 2016 to 2020, this paper finds that: on the one hand, board governance, shareholder governance and executive governance have become the hot spots in studies on corporate internal governance. On the other hand, as an important external governance mechanisms, stakeholder governance and information disclosure have become hot topics, too. At the same time, life cycle and sustainable development performance are high-frequency words in foreign scholars’research literature on other topics of corporate governance. According to the progress of foreign scholars in corporate governance research, this paper believes that perfecting the theory and evaluation method of corporate governance, deepening the interdisciplinary integration of fields, optimizing the network governance mechanism, and explore the research of green governance will be the direction of further expansion of corporate governance studies.