| Paelabang Danapan | |
| Native Name: | 孫大川 |
| Office: | Senior Advisor to the President |
| Term Start: | 9 February 2021 |
| President: | Tsai Ing-wen |
| Office2: | 5th Vice President of the Control Yuan |
| Appointer2: | Ma Ying-jeou |
| 1Blankname2: | CY President |
| 1Namedata2: | Chang Po-ya |
| Term Start2: | 1 August 2014 |
| Term End2: | 1 August 2020 |
| Predecessor2: | Chen Jinn-lih |
| Office3: | Minister of Council of Indigenous Peoples |
| Deputy3: | Hung Liang-chuan Hsu Ming-yuan Lin Chiang-yi |
| Term Start3: | 10 September 2009 |
| Term End3: | 1 August 2013 |
| Primeminister3: | Wu Den-yih Sean Chen Jiang Yi-huah |
| Predecessor3: | Chang Jen-hsiang |
| Successor3: | Lin Chiang-yi |
| Nationality: | Taiwan |
| Alma Mater: | National Taiwan University Fu Jen Catholic University Catholic University of Louvain |
Paelabang Danapan (; born 18 December 1953), also known as Sun Ta-chuan, 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]
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]
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]