When searching "Red Sorghum" written by Mo Yan in Web of Science (WOS) database, there are 17 articles focused on "Red Sorghum" and 96 articles focused on "Mo Yan" from 1980 to 2020 by January 17, 2020. By using CiteSpace visualization analysis software, from annual word frequency, the author, institution, country, term, keywords and references etc., this paper made a visual analysis on the research on "Red Sorghum" within 40 years. The study found that 41 countries or institutions have made the research on "Red Sorghum", which shows the great influence of "Red Sorghum". The main researches are in People's Republic of China and USA. Key words such as "magic realism", "cross cultural", "Goldblatt", "imagery", "happy time", "figure of speech" and "Chinese" are hot issues in the main researches. The research topic changes from theoretical discussion to practical application, and presents the characteristics of diversification and interdisciplinary.