Bruce Humes (born in 1955) is an American literary translator and critic of Chinese literature, specialising in non-Han authors and their works.
Humes grew up on Chicago's North Shore and in Sewickley, outside Pittsburgh, and had an early interest in languages, teaching himself elementary Latin, and learning German from his mother (who had a PhD in 20th-century French literature).
[1] Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby was the first novel he translated from Chinese.
As a foreigner living in China, he began to wonder what life was like for Chinese citizens who were not of the majority ethnic group, Han.
He decided to explore writing by and about non-Han peoples and launched his blog, Ethnic ChinaLit in 2009 (subsequently renamed Altaic Storytelling, and now Fei Piao).