Playbook №508 · CuongFBI & PhạmZuy CườngFBI

Children of
the Dragon

Con Rồng Cháu Tiên

Four thousand years of Vietnam — from the Hùng Kings to the boats — the history of a people who would not be erased.

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Begin the descent
The Free Gate

Know Your Roots

Seven questions. Answer them, and the 4,000-year timeline unlocks. Share your rank — see who in your family truly remembers.

Question 1 of 7
The Descent — 2879 BC → Today

Four Thousand Years

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1975 – 1995 · Thuyền Nhân

The Routes Out

Hà Nội Sài Gòn Mã Lai · Bidong Nam Dương Hồng Kông
Every dotted line was a small wooden boat, and a family betting their children against the sea.
~2MFled the country
~800KReached asylum
200–250K+Lost at sea (UNHCR est.)
The Final Chapter · A Witness Speaks

I was eleven years old when the water became a country of its own.

What the history books count in the hundreds of thousands, my family counted one meal, one wave, one prayer at a time — until a camp in Malaysia, and then a winter colder than any of us had ever imagined.

This is not a story I read. It is one I lived. And in the book, I tell it in full.

— CườngFBI
The Keepsake

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From Reader to Builder

Your Own Long Game

Our ancestors rebuilt from nothing, again and again. You can too. Readers use this book plus the tools below to build $500–$2,000/month — protecting families, sharing clean water, and repairing credit in our community.

"All limitations are self-imposed."
"The more things you do, the more life you live!"— CườngFBI
"A life worth living, is a life always worth recording."— CườngFBI
May you always be loving, laughing & living your life to the fullest!
About the Author. A refugee at eleven → a Malaysian camp → a foster family → three jobs at once → the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota → a decade in the FBI's Foreign Counter Intelligence division → and, over twenty years, an entire family reunited in America. Now semi-retired, helping his wife run the Nail Art salon in Bloomington, Minnesota — and building the 1,001-Playbook library for the Vietnamese-American diaspora.

Written in loving memory of Sensei Phong.