[1][2] Tạ Chí Đại Trường was born on June 31, 1938, in Nha Trang city, but his hometown in Bình Định province.

His father was a bachelor of Annamese imperial exams, Mr Tạ Chương Phùng, who participated in the independent movement in the 1940s and 1950s, then joined in the Caravelle club.

[5][6] However, since the early 2000s, Tạ Chí Đại Trường returned to Saigon to live with relatives because he did not feel comfortable settling abroad.

Together with Liam C. Kelley he criticised the authenticity of the Hùng kings claiming that they were later invented and that their supposed historicity had no basis in reality.

[7][8] Tạ Chí Đại Trường claimed that the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was unwilling to challenge the current narrative of the Hùng kings because of the adulation that the country had received in light of the Vietnam War by foreigners that admired the communists' struggle that caused it to promote the previously vague myth of the Hùng kings to become a national legend taught unquestionably to the Vietnamese people as it's a powerful origin myth, making any critical discussion about the Hồng Bàng Clan tense.