Empress Ju (沮皇后, personal name unknown) was the wife and empress of Liu Wuzhou, who rebelled against the rule of the Chinese dynasty Sui Dynasty near Sui's end, taking imperial style himself.
Very little is known about Empress Ju—all that is clear is that after Liu took imperial title—either khan or tianzi -- in 617, he created her empress. It is not known whether she survived to his subsequent defeat in 620 at the hand of the Tang Dynasty general Li Shimin, or his death, putatively in 622. (The below chart assumed that she survived to at least 620.)
| Chinese royalty | ||
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| Preceded by Empress Xiao of Sui Dynasty |
Empress of China (Northern Shanxi) 617 – 620 |
Succeeded by Empress Zhangsun of Tang Dynasty |
| Empress of China (Central/Southern Shanxi) 619 – 620 |
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“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside our skin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes—and knows it.”
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