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Miss Puff

2018 film by Zhang Xinyi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Miss Puff (Chinese: 泡芙小姐) is a 2018 Chinese drama/romance film directed by Zhang Xinyi, starring Zhang Xinyi, Wang Yuexin, and Tan Weiwei. A spin-off from the eight-season animated series Miss Puff released on Youku in 2010 with over 1 billion views, the film was released in China on February 9, 2018. This film marks actress Zhang Xinyi’s directorial debut, who also co-wrote the plot with San Pi, the original creator and a Beijing animator.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Miss Puff” as 2018 film by Zhang Xinyi. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Miss, Puff and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Miss, Puff and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Miss Puff”, the useful work is to connect “2018 film by Zhang Xinyi” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2010.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Miss Puff”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Miss Puff primary sources, Miss Puff archive and Miss research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Miss Puff”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Miss Puff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.