>> chongqing used to be chung king. it was peeled off pro the province of sichuan and became its own province 30, million people. >> rose: he became the head of the city, the mayor. >> the party secretary. >> rose: and as he did that he began to show certain characteristics that were unlike what you might expect for somebody who was of the generation that was opening china to the west. >> rose: exactly. one of the things that was confusing about him was he was one of china's most modern, sophisticated, westernized leaders. >> rose: charismatic. >> very charismatic. carried himself like an american politician. he's a back-slapper. knows how to get things done. yet the political vocabulary he was using, the rhetoric, was summoning the mawist language. the red songs, separating enemies from friends and in a sense it was because he had been raised in the system. mao. he knew that that was a way you could generate support and get things down in the chinese system. >> rose: and he had supporters in beijing that were kind of p