"Digital Research on the Image of the Periphery During Wei-Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties (Year Two)" is the second year of a three-year research project, which focuses on providing an alternative to the stereotypes in the worldview of Han Chinese, by restoring the historical reality of multi-ethnic groups during the multi-states period in the East Asian world. By using several special topics to construct a more diverse image of the periphery, and analyzing the structure of feelings recorded about it, the project deconstructs the prejudice in Chinese tradition towards the "strange things from the marginal regions." During the first year, the project used records about foreign lands from official histories, and combined text markup with databases of names and states of foreign ethnicities, discussing the interaction between the geographical distribution, historical power and social order concerning the foreign names. It started with the naming principles of the ethnicities in different historical periods to analyze cultural fusion and national identity in the interactions between Han people and foreigners. In the second year, the focus will shift from the individual names to the configuration of the image of collective nation groups. An ethnic group or state from the periphery used elements such as vocabulary, imagery, modality, and subject to express delimitation and integration in terms of political power, social order and ethnic history. More specifically, the focus will be on the customs and material production of the nations in the periphery, which we will analyze by means of text extraction, annotation and classification of the properties of authority terms, along with a database of periphery narratives, to set out the process whereby the text constructs the knowledge of the "other," and to study the image of the periphery and its cultural identity. During the third and final year, the project will concentrate on interaction events, and will connect the axes relating to people, time periods, space, and objects researched throughout the whole three-year term to describe the movement of people and objects, with the aim of presenting a macro picture of the contacts between the Han political regime and the periphery ethnic groups of the Wei-Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties.