Fan Yiping (b. 1964), a Zhuang nationality, a native of the mountainous regions of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China, a graduate of Fudan University, deputy chairman of the Guangxi Provincial Writers' Union. Author of novels, novels and short stories. The film “The Missing Weapon,” based on his script, became China’s highest-grossing film in 2002 and attracted the attention of the general public to the writer. The hero of Fan Yiping’s new novel, Stubborn Dad, received his nickname at the age of fourteen, and his entire long, long life was only confirmed the validity of this nickname. Some called him Buddha - but to remain a Buddha in twentieth-century China requires a lot of stubbornness. One hundred years of wars, changes, reforms, revolutions. Before us is a story about a man who has never committed treason.