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Andrew H. Plaks wrote the essay "The mean, nature and self-realization. European translations of the "Zhongyong", which was published in ". In his essay Plaks argues that since the text of the "Doctrine of the Mean" is "too easy", this factor is, as paraphrased by Joshua A. Fogel, an author of a book review for the "De l'un au multiple" book "The Journal of Asian Studies", a "major impediment" to translation.