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With the rapid development of digital humanities, some digital humanities platforms have been successfully developed to support digital humanities research for humanists. However, most of them have still not provided a friendly digital reading environment and practicable social network analysis tool to support humanists on interpreting texts and exploring characters’ social network relationship. For these reasons, a universal type digital humanities research platform on Chinese ancient books which was collaboratively developed by National Central Library and National Chengchi University of Taiwan to support historical China studies. In addition to providing digital archives, digital reading, basic search, and advanced search functions for Chinese ancient books, this platform provides two novel functions that can more effectively support digital humanities research including an automatic text annotation system (ATAS) for interpreting texts and a social network analysis tool for exploring characters’ social network relationships. This universal type digital humanities research platform on ancient books not only can stimulate the humanist to explore new viewpoints in the humanistic research, but also can promote the public to emerge the learning interest and awareness of Chinese ancient books.