This essay introduces the database of women's journals in modern China and the research platform of authorship of women's journals, and demonstrating how the system helps researchers to conduct digital humanities research. The essay will start with the specifications of the database through which to portray the general picture of women's journals in modern China. Then the discussion moves to the authorship of women's journals with a focus on social network analysis. We will use digital tools to show how these social networks could be converted into political capital for which people of different interests competed with each other.