Abstract: This article aims to share the process and thoughts of Dr. Yuanju Liu(Research Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy,Academia Sinica, Taiwan)and her research team’s gradually getting involved in the study of digital humanities since 2009. In the past fourteen years, they conducted a number of key research projects such as “Compiling,Criticism and GIS Map for Dai Zuo's Journal of the Campaign to the West”,“Mapping the Structure of Feeling about Illnesses;Illness Wring of the Anecdotes during the Wei,Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties and GIS Databases”,“Digital Research to the Circulation of Ye Dehui’ s Block Printing and of His Personal Networks”,“To Wander in the World;Travel Narratives in Buddhist Monk Biographies in Diachronic Perspective Studied with Automatic Labeling,Event Extraction, and Quantification of Time and Space”,“The Worlds of Doctrine and Emotion in Chinese Buddhist Illness Narratives;Digital Humanities Research on Eminent Buddhist Monk Biographies”,and “Digital Research on the Image of the Periphery during the Wei,Jin,Northern and Southern Dynasties”. Dr. Yuanju Liu and her research team accumulated experience using various digital tools while establishing at least four academic websites to share their research with the public. This article reflects and summarizes how to use text labeling and digital reading as research methods in digital humanities research,and the operating principles that must be paid attention to.

Key words: text labeling, digital reading, distant reading, close reading, mapping the structure of feeling about illnesses, Ye Dehui’s Book Collections, religious itinerancy, images of the periphery during Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern dynasties