The case of the auspicious longpaoBarreto, Rodrigo (Avtor) Oliveira, Madson (Avtor) Chinese clothingcultural biographyNational Historical Museum (MHN)OrientalismSophia Jobim Collection (CSJ)This article presents the historical context and cultural biography of item 019.367, the longpao (龙袍, lit. “dragon robe”) of the category jifu (吉服, “auspicious attire” or “fes­tive attire”), from the Sophia Jobim Collection (CSJ) of the National Historical Museum (MHN). The study develops two lines of argumentation. The first section introduces the figure of Maria Sophia Jobim Magno de Carvalho (1904–1968) and situates her collect­ing practices in relation to the artefact under examination, privileging a structured debate grounded in historical research across both primary and secondary sources pertinent to the object in question. In addition, we use the critical theory of Edward Said’s Oriental­ism, which illuminates how such practices shaped the modes of documenting Chinese costume within Brazilian museum contexts. The second section highlights a bibliograph­ical review of item 019.367, identified as a Qing dynasty article of clothing, incorporating the results of a sustained visual and stylistic examination of the robe itself. Finally, we propose a revised cataloguing of the garment preserved in situ at the MHN, contrasting it with the bibliographic framework previously employed by the institution. The conclu­sion underscores the necessity of critically reinscribing both the object and its catalogic record into the museum’s expographic narrative, in the pursuit of a museography that is methodologically rigorous, ethically reflexive, and responsive to intercultural dialogue throughout Latin America.20262026-10-29 15:36:48Članek v reviji190563sl