Paelabang Danapan

Paelabang Danapan
Sun Ta-chuan
孫大川
Senior Advisor to the President
Assumed office
9 February 2021
PresidentTsai Ing-wen
5th Vice President of the Control Yuan
In office
1 August 2014 – 1 August 2020
Appointed byMa Ying-jeou
CY PresidentChang Po-ya
Preceded byChen Jinn-lih
Succeeded byLee Hung-chun (2022)
Minister of Council of Indigenous Peoples
In office
10 September 2009 – 1 August 2013
Prime MinisterWu Den-yih
Sean Chen
Jiang Yi-huah
DeputyHung Liang-chuan
Hsu Ming-yuan
Lin Chiang-yi
Preceded byChang Jen-hsiang
Succeeded byLin Chiang-yi
Personal details
Born18 December 1953 (1953-12-18) (age 70)
EducationNational Taiwan University (BA)
Fu Jen Catholic University (BPhil)
Catholic University of Louvain (PhD)

Paelabang Danapan (Chinese: 巴厄拉邦; born 18 December 1953), also known as Sun Ta-chuan (Chinese: 孫大川; pinyin: Sūn Dàchuān), is an aboriginal Taiwanese educator and politician. He had served as Minister of the Council of Indigenous Peoples from 2009 to 2013 and Vice President of the Control Yuan from 2014 to 2020. Sun is a member of the Puyuma tribe in Taiwan,[1][2] and is also a Roman Catholic.[3]

  1. ^ "Minister". Council of Indigenous Peoples. Archived from the original on 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  2. ^ "Sun Ta-chuan, Minister, Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan". Executive Yuan. Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  3. ^ AsiaNews.it. "I, an aboriginal Catholic, against the decline of our ethnicity". www.asianews.it. Retrieved 2022-08-28.