TAIPEI, Taiwan —
To hundreds of thousands of fans around the world who watched this season’s finale of the hit reality show “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the final plea for victory from one of the contestants wasn’t especially memorable.
“It would mean a lot to be the first East Asian queen to win the crown and to be able to represent my country,” said the Taiwanese drag queen known as Nymphia Wind, who minutes later got her wish.
It was a single word in that sentence — “country” — that became a source of delight in Taiwan.
In deference to China, which claims Taiwan as…
