The Mongolians very early on had woodcut printing, but they only printed Buddhist texts. Everything else is handwritten manuscripts. Several stories lost in Chinese are still around in Mongolian. In the home of a scholar in Outer Mongolia, I found the novel, Empress Chung, which speaks of the ugly but bright wife of Hsuan Wang of the State of Chi, a book that is all but unknown in China.
蒙古人早有木版印刷，但只印佛教典籍，其他作品往往都是手抄本，有些故事在漢文中已找不到，蒙文卻還保存，我就在一位外蒙古科學院院士家裡發現小說「鍾國母」，是講齊宣王很醜、卻很聰明的太太鍾無豔，在中國幾乎已無人知曉。