Challenges that are faced by cities range from flood, earthquake, climate change, disease pandemics, poverty and economic fluctuations. It is therefore necessary for cities to become more resilient in response to the risks. Frameworks for studying resilient cities have been established in areas such as city system, climate change, disaster risk management and energy. Rockefeller Foundation's framework for city system covers the aspects of society, economy, environment, institution and infrastructure. The integrated and systematic framework is helpful in guiding the research and practices of resilient city. The frameworks for climate change and disaster risk management put forward a flow path of "identify-evaluate-diagnose-action plan" to build city resilience. The paper compares the frameworks of resilient city and sustainable city and it is found that the conceptual framework of resilient city is more problem-orientated and practical, targeting at risk aversion、disaster reduction and restoration simultaneously. In addition, the framework of resilient city emphasizes on the absorbing capabilities and redundancy of the whole urban system in response to multiple stresses. At present, the concept of resilient city has been widely studied abroad and has been applied in response to natural hazards including hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, etc. Research on resilient city in China is still at its infant stage. The paper introduces the frameworks of resilient city developed abroad, including the concept of resilient city and three different frameworks regarding city system, climate change and disaster risk management and urban energy. The paper also conducts a comparative study on the framework of resilient city and sustainable city.