In the social background of rapid urban-rural integration，academics began the research on “urban fringe” and “community governance” almost simultaneously，but unfortunately，rarely combine the two studies，the field of the urban fringe community governance has almost become a forgotten corner to the researchers. This article reviews the few number of relevant studies recently and found that：the academia is undergoing a transition from theory introduction to the stage of concept localization，if we placed the community governance research under the society background of the rapid and extensive society transition in China，urban fringe can be regarded as the most good starting point. Three existing analytical framework，the theory of social structure transformation，the theory of state power construction and grass-roots governance，governance and good governance theory，but all these analysis framework could not get rid of the static structural functionalism. Future studies following main trends：the first，cross-sectional study in academic organizations，governments，non-governmental organizations will increased；second，by means of community building，community governance and other government projects，participatory action research will become a main method of community governance research；third，dynamic action-oriented research will form a important supplement to the perspective of structural functionalism theory.