Focusing on the Anthropocene unseen—or present yet invisible realities, such as the accumulation of greenhouse gases that drive global warming but defy immediate visibility—this project aims to develop a new econarratological approach and offers a comparative study of American and Chinese Anthropocene fiction. Sensitivity to the unseen has been fundamental to conceptualizations and criticism of the Anthropocene. However, Anthropocene literary criticism, including econarratology, largely rests on Western worldviews and Anglophone texts, creating new blind spots in its landscape that are at odds with the planetary scale of the Anthropocene condition. The project first integrates scale theory into econarratology to create a new framework for decoding the affirmative power of the unseen embedded in narrative forms. It then explores three major forms of the Anthropocene unseen—scale variance, the climate subaltern, and emergent collectivity—through a comparative analysis of contemporary American and Chinese Anthropocene fiction. In doing so, the project seeks to extend econarratology beyond its Western-centered focus and sheds light on the unseen zone of Anthropocene literary criticism, opening up alternative, pluralized ways of accessing and inhabiting the world. In an age that favors instant spectacles and immediate visibility, the affirmative power of recognizing the unseen also plays a crucial role in the broader political and ethical project to move beyond stories of denial and negation.