Translocality, as a re-recognition of locality in western Geography, has gradually become an important theoretical framework for understanding the increasingly interconnected global world. By focusing on sorting out the context and main topics of current western geography on translocality research, it reached the following conclusions. (i) From the perspective of geography, translocality research can be roughly divided into initial development stage, stable development stage and high-speed development stage. (ii) Existing studies on migration, urbanization, and social resilience form the knowledge base for translocality research from the perspective of geography. Migration, mobility, and politics are hot topics of translocality research. (iii) Current issues mainly focus on the characteristics of translocal behavior, the impact of translocal behavior, translocal circular flow and gender research in translocal behavior. Based on this, it proposed the important trends that translocality research in China needs to pay attention.