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Paelabang Danapan

Paelabang Danapan

Taiwanese educator and politician

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]

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Education

Paelabang Danapan received his bachelor's degree in Chinese literature from National Taiwan University, and bachelor's degree in philosophy from Fu Jen Catholic University. He then earned his doctoral degree in sinology from Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.[4]

Early career

Before entering the political world, Paelabang Danapan was a professor at the National Chengchi University in Taipei and Professor of Indigenous Language and Communication at National Dong Hwa University.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Minister". Council of Indigenous Peoples. Archived from the original on 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  2. [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. [3]
    AsiaNews.it. "I, an aboriginal Catholic, against the decline of our ethnicity". www.asianews.it. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
  4. [4]
    "Vice President Mr. Sun Ta-chuan". Control Yuan. Archived from the original on 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
  5. [5]
    "Premier Wu Den-yih Takes Charge of Revamped Cabinet". Taiwan Review. 2009-01-11. Archived from the original on 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
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